Listen: Mayor Pushes For Fort Worth To Face Up To Airbnb Reality

Arlington TX

08 December, 2021

7:40 PM

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By Jessica Priest, Fort Worth Report December 8, 2021 In the latest installment of our occasional conversations with Fort Worth leaders, Mayor Mattie Parker discusses short-term rentals. In 2018, City Council passed an ordinance defining short-term rentals as dwellings where the owner is compensated for lodging guests between 1 to 30 days. Fort Worth allows short-term rentals in some parts of the city, but not residential areas. Across the state, Grapevine prohibits them entirely while Austin and Arlington require short-term rentals to be licensed and pay hotel and occupancy taxes. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. For the unabridged version, please listen to the audio attached to this article. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.