of course, will provide you an update on that tomorrow night on Kentucky edition.

Now, it's a statistic that we have repeated many times when it comes to the demand for homes.

That's far greater than what's available.

Kentucky is short more than 200,000 housing units, and lawmakers have since studied the problem and today proposed the omnibus Senate Bill nine to encourage home building in the state.

However, as our June Leffler reports, some say an attached provision around Airbnbs would make more space for tourists, not Kentuckians.

>> State Senator Robbie Mills, who co-chaired a housing task force last year, proposes ways for local governments to offer financing incentives to developers creating more homes or needed infrastructure as part of Senate Bill nine.

>> And what this does is give local governments a tool to use that would enable them to get infrastructure in the ground to move building forward.

But I think after we've talked about it for a couple of years, it's time to take a couple steps forward and see if we can improve the process for our communities and our state.

>> As of today, Senate Bill nine also includes language from State Representative Susan Witten, who also co-chaired the housing Task force.

It eliminates hurdles people with previous evictions face when looking for homes.

>> This just requires the automatic expungement of dismissed eviction filings and also protects minors from being listed on eviction cases, as well as providing the framework to remove their name from the record.

>> These measures passed their respective chambers earlier this session, but as a result of committee action today, Senate Bill nine now includes language of other bills that stalled this year.

>> Kentucky families need comprehensive, robust reforms and some of them are in here.

But unfortunately, the poison pill is just too much.

>> On the House floor.

Democrats railed against one provision that takes cities powers away to regulate short term rentals.

These are places in residential neighborhoods that owners could rent out for stays of less than 30 days.

Think Airbnb or Vrbo.

Democrats say this would exacerbate the housing shortage.

>> For every single, single family home that turns into a short term rental.

That's a Kentucky family that can't purchase their first home.

>> Democrats also say this would compromise local control and quality of neighborhoods.

>> You know, look, I live close to Cincinnati and, you know, they're big football days or big things going on in Cincinnati.

I don't want my neighborhood to be turned into a bunch of short term rentals for party houses.

It destroys the fabric of our community and can make life in some of these towns unlivable.

If there aren't thoughtful and appropriate controls on short term rentals.

>> The bill does allow cities to police noise or other nuisances from these rentals.

Senate Bill nine passed the House today largely along party lines.

During the interim, lawmakers heard of other states injecting state dollars into revolving loan funds for developers or other initiatives.

Republicans have not proposed any such investment.

Democrat's and the governor proposed putting more than $100 million into the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

But that idea was not embraced by the Republican