02/21/2021
Please visit bangormaine.gov/housing and take the survey if you live in Bangor. If you are a traveler, please use this email to voice your opinion on this issue: [email protected]
This would be an infringement on the rights of property owners. I am not sure the city council realizes how reliant our city is on traveling professionals coming here on short term contracts. EMMC for one, could not operate without them. They are not only in healthcare however. Affordable, quality short-term housing is a perk and one reason to take a contract in Bangor. If that goes away, less travelers will take contracts here and that becomes a huge problem.
Affordable short-term housing for both traveling professionals as well as vacationers brings people to our city who spend their money in our stores, restaurants, etc. It is good for Bangor. More regulation will drive people out.
There are people in our city who are trying to survive. In a year when many have struggled financially like never before, the city is thinking of risking another means for survival. I know Widows who could not survive without renting a bedroom in their home. And it works the other way too, people who cannot afford traditional rents, or can’t get them because they can’t sign a year’s lease for whatever reason. Long-term rentals require signing a years’ lease in most instances.
The more Maine, and Bangor desire to infringe on our rights, the less I am incentivized to remain here.
Some of the verbiage in the survey said, “if short-term rentals are allowed....” that is very concerning.
