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    "deck": "Anchorage short-term rental hosts, including Airbnb and Vrbo listings, must register with the city starting May 1 or risk losing booking ability.",
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    "body_md": "Starting May 1, the Municipality of Anchorage will require every short-term rental in the city, including listings on Airbnb and Vrbo, to register through a new online portal run by the Municipal Clerk's Office. Registration is free and takes just a few minutes to complete.\n\nHosts have until July 30 to get registered. After that cutoff, any listing advertised without a municipal registration number is illegal to post, and rental platforms won't be able to collect booking fees for unregistered properties, meaning unregistered hosts could effectively lose their ability to rent out their space.\n\nThe program applies to every short-term rental in the Municipality of Anchorage, from a spare room in Girdwood to a full condo Downtown.\n\nThe city is collecting the registration data to understand how many short-term rentals actually exist in Anchorage. That count will feed directly into future housing policy decisions.\n\nThe ordinance was approved in late 2025. Girdwood residents said at the time that the city was years behind on getting a handle on the scale of short-term rentals in the area.",
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    "summary": "Anchorage will require all short-term rentals, including Airbnb and Vrbo listings, to register through a new free online portal starting May 1, 2026. Hosts have until July 30 to register, after which unregistered listings become illegal and platforms can't process their bookings.",
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      "Registration portal for Anchorage short-term rentals opens May 1.",
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      "Registration is free, done online through the Municipal Clerk's Office, and renews annually at no cost.",
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