HB 180: More Regulations For Short-term Rental Operators
This bill would add additional regulations and permitting requirements for short-term rental operators — even for jurisdictions who may not want to impose them.
Are We Experiencing an Airbnbust?
Travelers have stayed in people’s primary or secondary properties in exchange for money for centuries. What’s modern are the apps we use to arrange such rentals and the zoning laws that criminalize the otherwise peaceful activity.
Homeowners Have the Right to Share Their Property
The following op-ed, written by our president Connor Boyack, was published this weekend in the Salt Lake Tribune. The self-styled “sharing economy” has brought innovation and efficiency to a number of industries in Utah, each of...
HB 409: Putting a Pause on Short-Term Rental Restrictions
This bill was not considered by the legislature. Libertas Institute supports this bill. Our first-of-a-kind Freest Cities Index analyzed municipalities throughout Utah on a number of important issues. One metric upon which cities...
Zoning Meets Property Rights: Airbnb and VRBO Outlawed in Several Utah Cities
Recently we interviewed a St. George resident who was warned by a city code enforcement officer that his house sharing attempts via the popular site Airbnb were in violation of an ordinance prohibiting short-term...