{"id":4718,"date":"2025-10-28T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/ann-eisenberg-speculates-on-the-diminished-interest-in-rural-voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election-copy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:54:50","slug":"your-neighbors-are-new-every-week","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/news\/your-neighbors-are-new-every-week\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYour neighbors are new every week\u201d: short-term rentals, housing, and community wellbeing in high-amenity rural places"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4718\" data-postid=\"4718\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4718 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_yfln550 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_cm5y361 first\">\n                    <!-- module fancy heading -->\n<div  class=\"module module-fancy-heading tb_yd1f166 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <h1 class=\"fancy-heading\">\n    <span class=\"main-head tf_block\">\n                    \u201cYour neighbors are new every week\u201d            <\/span>\n\n    \n    <span class=\"sub-head tf_block tf_rel\">\n                    Short-term rentals, housing, and community wellbeing in high-amenity rural places            <\/span>\n    <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module fancy heading -->\n<!-- Breadcrumbs module -->\n<div  class=\"module module-breadcrumbs tb_f9j1100 \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n\t<nav role=\"navigation\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\" class=\"tbp_breadcrumb_trail\"><ul class=\"tbp_trail_items\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/BreadcrumbList\"><meta name=\"numberOfItems\" content=\"1\" \/><meta name=\"itemListOrder\" content=\"Ascending\" \/><li itemprop=\"itemListElement\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ListItem\" class=\"tbp_trail_item tbp_trail_end\"><a itemprop=\"item\" href=\"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/\" rel=\"home\"><span itemprop=\"name\">Home<\/span><\/a><meta itemprop=\"position\" content=\"1\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div><!-- \/Breadcrumbs module -->\n<!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_wvvl202   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <p data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"667\">Amenity driven in-migration, seasonal home ownership, and tourism are long standing processes impacting housing affordability and community wellbeing in high natural amenity rural communities. Short-term rental (STR) accommodations, such as Airbnb and Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO), are a relatively new phenomenon that can further limit housing options for full-time residents and members of the seasonal workforce. There is tremendous variation across communities in their efforts to regulate STRs. To assess the impacts of STRs on housing affordability and community wellbeing in a high-amenity rural place, RSS members <strong>Alex Theophilus<\/strong> and <strong>Jessica Ulrich-Schad<\/strong> analyze and discuss interviews with 28 residents of the Bear Lake area in northeastern Utah and southeastern Idaho. Most communities around Bear Lake had enacted minimal to no regulations on STRs at the time of this research, making this a suitable case study for the impacts of STRs when no restrictions are placed on them. Community members expressed concern that STRs are driving high housing costs while also negatively impacting community interactions and providing little to no benefit to the local economy. To illuminate avenues for better STR regulation, we discuss alternative examples of how STRs can be regulated in high-amenity rural communities. We conclude with a discussion of the future implications of STR policy, particularly as it relates to housing affordability and socioeconomic inequality.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"671\" data-end=\"993\"><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11111-025-00508-4\">\ud83d\udd17 Read the full article<\/a><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RSS members<strong> Alex Theophilus<\/strong> and <strong>Jessica Ulrich-Schad<\/strong> of Utah State University recently published research on the perceived impacts of short-term rentals in high amenity rural communities.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s11111-025-00508-4\">\ud83d\udd17 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4720,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","news_announcements":[25,32,33],"class_list":["post-4718","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news_announcements-member-in-the-news","news_announcements-natural-resources","news_announcements-population","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"ptb_metabox":[],"ptb_taxonomy":{"news_announcements":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Member in the News","slug":"member-in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":0,"count":45,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":32,"name":"Natural Resources","slug":"natural-resources","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":32,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":7,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":33,"name":"Population","slug":"population","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":33,"taxonomy":"news_announcements","description":"","parent":26,"count":11,"filter":"raw"}]},"ptb_featured_image":{"url":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/handiwork-nyc-x6pnKtPZ-8s-unsplash.jpg","title":"handiwork-nyc-x6pnKtPZ-8s-unsplash","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_announcements","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruralsociology.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_announcements?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}