Since joining C-VILLE in April 2023, Catie Ratliff has been the paper’s full-time news reporter. Prior to C-VILLE, she worked as a student journalist with WUVA at the University of Virginia. Ratliff covers a bit of everything as the only news reporter on staff, but has a specific interest in politics, education, development, and community issues. If you’d like to hear her talk local news, she appears on WINA’s Cville Right Now Live with Adam Hawes every other Wednesday to discuss the new issue of the paper and the latest goings-on in Charlottesville.
City officials want to amend Charlottesville’s homestay ordinance—and its occupancy limits
Charlottesville was among the first localities in the United States to regulate residential short-term rentals in 2015. More than a decade later, the city wants to update its rules, but it’s still juggling the often competing feedback from homestay operators and neighbors. Short-term rentals, also referred to as homestays, gained popularity during the mid-2010s surge […]
