The New Orleans City Council has worked toward more restrictive regulations on short-term rentals for the past year. Now council members want to tighten enforcement.
Density and scale at odds with surrounding neighborhood
Stunning indifference to community resistance
Cloud of secrecy shrouds Port transaction.
Lingering questions about governance and how the money should be divided
Focus should be on transit riders, not cars.
Plan would drop stops, block intersections.
Proposal would limit residential short-term rentals to owners with a homestead exemption and place caps on commercial short-term rentals.
City Council to act on ordinances that would incentivize affordable housing.