Ask the Madison City Council to ban short-term rentals in Madison's neighborhoods.

1. Short-term rentals raise the cost of housing, rent and property taxes for everybody by reducing housing supply
2. Short-term rentals destroy local communities. They make Madison a less stable, less connected, and more transient community. 
3. Short-term rentals could allow unsafe individuals to rent and live near our children and schools with little to no oversight or transparency 
4. Short-term rentals can often sit vacant, increasing chances of blight, crime and wasting homes in our neighborhoods

We should all know that our neighbors are trusted members of the Madison community. Our kids deserve to play in safe, stable neighborhoods, to ride their bikes, wait for the bus, and walk to school in a neighborhood where residents are familiar faces—families who live, work, and contribute to this community. They deserve to live next to friends who they'll grow up with, learn from and form bonds with. We should know who our neighbors are, and trust that they are good community members rather than transient, potentially dangerous strangers. Our homes should be owned by people here in Madison, not investors driven by profiting off of our community.

Huntsville already has done this successfully. 

Ask the Madison City Council to ban short-term rentals within residential zones. Don't allow investors to profit off of buying up our neighborhoods. Our community's future is at stake. 

Sign this petition to call on our leaders to prioritize those of us who live here in Madison over short-term rental investors.