# Help with STRs - Please Send 1-Click Email (Takes 1 minute)

**URL:** <https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/help-with-strs-please-send-1-click-email-takes-1-minute/343>\
**Category:** General Austin\
**Created:** [January 26, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/help-with-strs-please-send-1-click-email-takes-1-minute/343 "2016-01-26T02:30:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pete\_Gilcrease](https://forum.atxfriends.org/user_avatar/forum.atxfriends.org/pete_gilcrease/32/2_2.png) [@Pete\_Gilcrease](https://forum.atxfriends.org/u/Pete_Gilcrease)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2016, 2:30am UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/help-with-strs-please-send-1-click-email-takes-1-minute/343/1 "2016-01-26T02:30:05Z")

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Please click the link below and click “Send Email Now” to email to the Austin city council to help keep STRs legal in Austin. It only takes a few seconds and could make a huge impact!

[http://www.austinhomesharingworks.com/action/](http://www.austinhomesharingworks.com/action/)

Please have your voice heard!

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**Author:** ![LFranklin](https://forum.atxfriends.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@LFranklin](https://forum.atxfriends.org/u/LFranklin)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/help-with-strs-please-send-1-click-email-takes-1-minute/343/2 "2016-01-28T14:01:09Z")

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A different viewpoint:

> **[Short term rental opponents label them anti-family](https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/short-term-rental-opponents-label-them-anti-family)**
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> This week the Austin City Council once again tackles the thorny issue of short term rentals. The so-called STRs are already under attack for allegedly bringing strangers and noise into quiet residential areas, but they're about to get hit with a new...

Bertha Delgado chimed in. She is president of the East Town Lake  
Citizens Neighborhood Association. She says, “We’ve lost a lot of  
families. A lot of families are being pushed out, taxed out. A lot of  
people can’t afford to live in these neighborhoods anymore.” Delgado  
worries the neighborhoods are being taken over by “commercial  
enterprises, private investors that are wanting to come in and remodel  
our whole neighborhood and construct it into an entertainment district  
to where we’re displacing people.”

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**Author:** ![Pete\_Gilcrease](https://forum.atxfriends.org/user_avatar/forum.atxfriends.org/pete_gilcrease/32/2_2.png) [@Pete\_Gilcrease](https://forum.atxfriends.org/u/Pete_Gilcrease)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2016, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.atxfriends.org/t/help-with-strs-please-send-1-click-email-takes-1-minute/343/3 "2016-01-28T14:32:19Z")

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All of those concerns have already been debunked. It’s simply propaganda used for a political agenda against STRs.