SF to grapple with new rules for short-term rentals » Albuquerque Journal

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Most of Santa Fe’s short-term rental properties, such as this one above the O’Farrell Hat Company, are located downtown. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

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Short-term rentals, or STRs, have long been a controversial topic in Santa Fe and a new ordinance proposed by the Santa Fe City Council has done little to ease those tensions.

Due to companies such as Airbnb, the number of STRs in New Mexico’s capital city has proliferated in recent years. A 2019 study counted the number of such rentals in the city at 1,444 units in 2018, a three-year growth of 380%.

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However, many of those units have no…