As short-term rental owners and operators who focus on vacation-destination markets (none in the city of Duluth), we appreciate Duluth’s desire to regularly review its short-term rental policies. Reasonable limits and effective enforcement are important.

But after reading the News Tribune’s Nov. 19 coverage of Duluth’s short-term rental moratorium , it’s clear short-term rentals are being portrayed as a much larger contributor to the city’s housing challenges than the numbers support.

The article noted that Duluth has 189 licensed short-term rentals citywide (including in form districts). Duluth, however, has around 40,000 total housing units. That means licensed short-term rentals represent under 0.5% of the city’s housing stock — statistically a rounding error. Even if every short-te

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