Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast.

I'm Evan Schwarzenover.

On today's show, it's another day.

And another day means there's some Airbnb problem somewhere in the world.

Today, we're going to focus on Tennessee and Colorado.

My resident sharing economy scholar slash commentator slash likes to be in the media.

Jared Meyer, research fellow at the Foundation for Government Accountability. Jared, thank you

for making a media appearance. I know you hate doing these. Thanks, Evan. I don't even know what to say

to that. You didn't come up with some clever retort.

We should probably practice our banter next time so that it seems super natural and organic.

But anyway, let's talk about Nashville.

Nashville and Airbnb have kind of been at it for the past couple of years.

Can you talk about specifically the 2015 ordinance that resulted in the lawsuit that we're going to get to after you explain this law?

So Nashville's city council bowed pressure from the hotel industry and passed pretty restrictive regulations against short-term rentals.

One of the main things it did was it capped neighborhoods at 3% of houses being able to get a

short-term rental permit for a non-owner-occupied house. What this means is like a second home. And just

think in Nashville, a city known for its music industry, a lot of people have second homes there,

or maybe are moving for jobs and then coming back. So this was something that placed really an

arbitrary cap on neighborhoods that don't have many hotels like East Nashville and has led to a lot

of problems going on there. And what was the intent behind? I mean, of course, the hotel industry,

we know that they have business reasons to try to use government against their competitor. And I don't

want to get in the business of

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