Sharing Economy. Private Property Rights. Trade Practices Issues can impact Laws & Regs

What trade partcices allegations are being made against short term rentals?

• discrimination
• inconsistent tax collections
• violations of local health and safety regulations

What’s the solution proposed to curb this? Increased data collection of short term rentals with FTC monitoring

What would this look like as city ordinances or state laws? 

• Data collection requirement by the oversight agency to record ethnicity of renter,
• Tax collection data linked to the short term rental property
• Tracking of health and safety code violations.

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