News, Jan. 13: “Homes as Hotels”
Short-Term Thinking
Amazing. The problems short-term rentals are causing people who actually want to live here is being completely ignored. Talk to anyone needing long-term rentals and you will get your fill of horror stories: no decent rentals available, abusive landlords totally out of line, landlord tenant laws unenforceable since there is no where else available.
This is short-term thinking; what Santa Fe is becoming is a tourist trap instead of the historical gem that it used to be, and calling Canyon Road an art colony is an insult to those local artists who lived there when it really was a colony and grew the colony.
Now it is an ugly adobe strip mall, that services artists from anywhere but Santa Fe, and sends the profits out of state. ... The city needs to look at the bigger longer sustaining income from people who actually live, work and spend their income here, rather than service people who are only in it to make a short term buck.
And when the upcoming economic downturn comes, where will the tourists be? Gone like the last time, leaving the tourist trap Santa Fe has become to wallow in its tourist crap, crying. But maybe then we can find a decent rental here.
Karl Hardy
SFReporter.com
Movies, Jan. 6: “Crime of the Century”
Repeating Sequence
Incredible movie. It's all starting over again, right in front of us. Obama's biggest failure: not bringing those responsible to justice and letting the banks stay "too big to fail."
Michael Lordi
via Facebook
Double Standard
If you are white and rich, your standard of justice is different than for everyone else. Period.
Anne Wheeler
via Facebook
CORRECTION
The "Small Bites" review on Jan. 13 contained several errors. The photo and headline were from Joseph's. The text and contact info were for Geronimo. We're sorry!
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