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# Letters: Santa Monica’s wasted Airbnb opportunity
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/letters-santa-monicas-wasted-airbnb-opportunity/
- Published: 2015-05-22T13:34:02.000Z
- Updated: 2024-12-03T21:39:03.000Z
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Letters, Opinion, airbnb, barack obama, city council, City Hall, elizabeth warren, government, letters to the editor, Obama, Politics, president obama, regulation, Santa Monica, short-term rentals, Thomas A. Nitti, TPP, trans-pacific partnership, vacation rentals, vrbo, william schoene, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-06 13:37

Editor:

Santa Monica has wasted a unique opportunity. Regulating and taxing short-term rentals could generate millions for affordable housing. These short-term rental units will not be available for low-income housing even if short-term rentals are prohibited.

Instead, the City adopted the discredited model of 1920s prohibition and the current war on drugs — and will suffer the same ignominious failure.

Thomas A. Nitti  
*Santa Monica*

**Obama's shady trade agreement**

Editor:

Please put an end to publicly disagreeing with Trans-Pacific Partnershipcritics and just publish the TPP text. It's supposed to be a free country with a free press.

Let us all read it, discuss it and decide democratically what's good for America, in terms of yet another "historic" trade agreement.

William Schoene  
*Santa Monica*