Beat Check with The Oregonian

How Portland’s promise to target unlicensed Airbnbs went bust

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Four years after Portland officials passed what they hailed to be some of the strongest rules governing short-term rentals in the country, Portland’s regulation of Airbnb rentals remains fundamentally broken, a recent investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Ted Sickinger found.

On the latest Beat Check, I speak with Sickinger about how the city’s big promise to crack down on illicit Airbnbs went bust.

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  • Portland promised to crack down on unlicensed Airbnbs. This happened instead.
  • Portland escalates fight with Airbnb over illegal listings
  • Portland Reaches Rental Data Sharing Agreement With Airbnb

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