Nashville's short-term rental vote: What it does, what it doesn't do, and why it's a big deal

The newly approved ordinance falls far short of banning all short-term rentals in the city. It's instead aimed at phasing out one particular type — investor-owned short-term rentals in residential-zoned neighborhoods. 

Critics have complained this type, known as non-owner occupied short-term rentals, have turned residential homes into disruptive party hotels and uprooted longtime residents in place of businesses that don't belong next to homes.

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