Asheville Citizen-Times: Update: Asheville’s downtown vacation rental ban passed quickly (9 January 2018)
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Former council candidate and musician Andrew Fletcher said the rentals pushed out service industry workers and artists, such as his band whose downtown studio was converted into a vacation rental in 2014.
“People are not being displaced by 120-room hotels. They’re being displaced by 120 individual Airbnbs,” he said.