Tuesday’s vote puts Melbourne on a similar track to councils in Hobart and Brisbane and widens the gap with Airbnb, which wants a state government levy.
The City of Melbourne plans by February to bring in a $350 registration fee for short-stay accommodation providers and impose a 180-day-a-year cap on listings on platforms such as Airbnb and Stayz, to push more housing into the longer-term private rental market.
Half-time: The City of Melbourne is pushing to impose a 180-day cap on the number of days a home can be listed on short-stay platforms.A consultation process that kicks off this week will report back by November to draft the law, with the aim of implementing it in February next year, minutes of Tuesday’s council meeting show.to curb the burgeoning impact of short-stay rental platforms in an effort to ease their rental crises.
The most prohibitive was Singapore, which has a complete ban on residential stays of less than three months. to fund community infrastructure – as the platform does in its home US market – rather than leaving it up to individual councils, which want to treat it as a local housing issue.The Australian Financial Review“You can have multiple approaches applying and can have multiple levels of government involved if you’re really clear what your policy objectives are. In our case it’s about housing supply and the most compelling lever is caps on supply.
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