West Tisbury is considering a program that could ease the year-round housing crunch by incentivizing homeowners to switch their vacation rentals to year-round rentals.
As the Island continues to struggle with its housing crisis, Chilmark is offering one-time cash incentives of up to $12,000 to homeowners who convert their properties from vacation rentals to year-round rentals.
With Memorial Day and the summer season on the horizon, Vineyard vacation rental agents are seeing an unfamiliar sight: availability in July and August.
A disagreement over whether to allow new accessory dwelling units to be used for weekly rentals bubbled up this week.
Vineyard towns have started to wrap their arms around regulating the thousands of short-term rentals on the Island, tackling an issue that housing advocates have long said exacerbates the ongoing housing crisis.
The new regulations cement the process for homeowners to be able to make money by renting out their properties while the town attempts to deter commercial interests from hollowing out the year-round housing stock.