NO City Council STR Lottery

On Monday, New Orleans City Council held a lottery to determine which 229 of the 532 short-term rental owners would be able to legally continue operating their short-term rentals on blocks where more than one application was submitted.

Property owners submitted 1960 total applications for residential short-term rental licenses during the two-week application period, and from those applications, 532 were on contested blocks, per the new city ordinance which aims to limit short-term rental density to one per square block.

Read the full story on nola.com here.