Most of the listings are for entire homes or apartments. Last summer, the city hired a contractor to comb through listings on Airbnb, Vrbo and other rental sites.
City officials say Juneau’s short-term rental listings may have increased by about 300 in 2022, more than doubling the previous year’s total.Scott Ciambor, Juneau’s planning manager, says the trend is contributing to Juneau’s housing crunch.
“Short-term rentals are definitely impacting the overall housing stock, and the availability for folks looking for housing to find it,” he said.City Revenue Officer Ruth Kostik tracks sales tax in Juneau. She presented the investigation’s findings at a Juneau Assembly finance committee meeting earlier this month and said the Ironman Alaska race“I was curious to watch and see, post-Ironman, especially with the cancellation , if we’d start to see some of that tick back down,” Kostik said. “But we haven’t really seen that play out in the numbers just yet, so it’s actually still growing.”
Kostik says it’s hard to get an exact count of short-term rentals. Some listings were duplicates, and some appeared on some days and not others — possibly because people were putting up and taking down listings to hide their unregistered rentals.. Ciambor says other factors play into the housing crunch, like rising housing costs and limits to development in Juneau, and there’s no easy fix.
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