NOLA.com: New Orleans short-term rental applications up as tourism rebounds; see neighborhood data
Short-term rental permit applications are on the rise in New Orleans this year, after plummeting in early 2020 during COVID lockdowns. In April, the city issued permits to 152 short-term rental operators — the most in a month since December 2019…
… “We cannot as a city argue that we have an affordable housing crisis and have short-term rentals exist in a vacuum. The two things are related,” said former state senator JP Morrell, who is considering a run for City Council. “It has to be a much more coherent and accountable system where we know exactly how many short-term rentals are in the city, and we should cap how many can be in specific neighborhoods.”