Touristy Bar Harbor Struggles To Balance Affordable Housing With STRs

View of Bar Harbour from Mount Desert Island
Bar Harbor-19 photo by John Cook is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Bar Harbor, Maine, viewed from a popular U.S. tourist destination — Acadia National Park.

Does a tourist town need affordable accommodations for citizens and seasonal workers? Or does it need STRs (Short Term Rentals) to attract tourists? For towns and cities like Bar Harbor, both are needed. Bar Harbor has failed find the balance before. Now it’s trying again.

Read more at Maine Public Radio: Bar Harbor Considers Fixing Its Housing Shortage By Reining In Vacation Rentals1

Footnotes

  1. for those not in the know, MDI = Mount Desert Island

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