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STRs reduce property tax revenues for states and cities because STRs are primarily residential homes, which are taxed at a lower rate than hotels and businesses.
It does not make sense to take homes off the market to benefit the few STR operators when they are so disruptive to our neighborhoods, reduce housing availability, threaten our limited open space with dense development, burden our infrastructure, and create the need to build more homes.
According to this theory, the best antidote to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun: the solution to gun violence is more guns.