Communities Consider Short-Term Housing Costs and Benefits Whenever these discussions come up in most communities they involve intense and long discussions. - Boyne City Manager Michael Cain
May 24, 2021
As summer arrives, so do the visitors. And in many northern Michigan communities they turn to short-term rentals. But those short-term rentals can be a big topic of debate in many communities: whether it’s concern over quality of living in neighborhoods – or the larger impact on affordable housing.
Monday the Michigan Municipal League hosted a discussion about the so-called STR’s, and two northern Michigan leaders were a part of it. Boyne City Manager Michael Cain says, “We’re seeing the housing situation, which has been a problem…it’s becoming much more acute recently. We’ve had this issue before but not at the level we’re having it now.”