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Canadian conservative activist and YouTuber Lauren Southern announced Tuesday that her parents had been banned from vacation rental property company Airbnb for being “closely associated” with their daughter.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 10:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Airbnb has taken steps in North Carolina to remove so-called “party houses” from their platform.
Published: Saturday, December 19th, 2020 @ 2:43 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Dr. Emily Yeager believes rural areas of eastern North Carolina offer a lot to tourists. What they may not offer are a lot of places to stay.
Published: Thursday, November 7th, 2019 @ 12:23 am
By: ECU News Services
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An Asheville man has incurred $850,000 in fines because of rentals he operates in the city. Raleigh may be thinking about imposing the same types of fines against its residents who offer short-term property rentals under Airbnb or other outlets
Published: Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's now a full-scale debate - about property rights, the free market, and, in fact, freedom of choice
Published: Saturday, July 1st, 2017 @ 10:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Airbnb, Uber, Etsy, and other companies within the sharing economy could see friendly regulatory reform from President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, based on remarks Chao made at a meeting last year to the American Action Forum
Published: Thursday, December 1st, 2016 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While residents wait on the Raleigh City Council to decide whether or not Airbnb-style services should be legal, local governments elsewhere in the U.S. are cracking down on the online-based home rental company
Published: Thursday, February 25th, 2016 @ 9:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In the age of Uber, Lyft, and numerous other "concierge"-style services that use technology as a business base, there is Airbnb - the online bed-and-breakfast rental option.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2015 @ 10:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Airbnb and similar short-term rental services are illegal under Raleigh's existing bed and breakfast zoning rules, said Eric Braun, chairman of the City Planning Department's Text Change Committee, at a Sept. 15 meeting.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2015 @ 2:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Technological innovation changes industries. How fast such better ideas take hold often depends on government actions. And while new technologies raise difficult questions, poor economic logic never should be the justification for clamping down on new ideas.
Published: Tuesday, September 8th, 2015 @ 5:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Regulations on the emerging sharing economy, and how North Carolinians will embrace it, will have their next stop at the Raleigh City Council. The council will receive a report Jan. 20 on Airbnb, one of the stars of the sharing economy. Meantime, a legislative committee that recommends new tax...
Published: Thursday, January 15th, 2015 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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