Opinion: Airbnb and short-term rentals drive up L.A. housing prices. Here’s how we can push back
1 year, 3 months ago

Opinion: Airbnb and short-term rentals drive up L.A. housing prices. Here’s how we can push back

LA Times  

Airbnb is back in the headlines in Los Angeles: Thousands of short-term rental hosts are breaking the law, and the city isn’t taking the problem seriously enough. Short-term rental hosts in Los Angeles are required to get a license from the city, and they’re allowed to operate a rental only out of their own principal residence. Second, in addition to going after hosts, the city should hold short-term rental companies — Airbnb, but also the many smaller players in the market — financially responsible for illegal activities occurring on their platforms. In a city with as many high-quality tourist accommodation options as Los Angeles, there is no conceivable public interest rationale for letting scarce housing serve as de facto hotels.

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Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies

LA Times  

City of Los Angeles officials are finally confronting a question that has seemed too big to answer: How much would it actually cost to get every person living on the street today indoors and make sure that no one languished there for years again? “In other ways, it doesn’t seem that eye-popping to me for the scale of the problem.” …

What does a world without Airbnb look like?
6 months, 1 week ago

What does a world without Airbnb look like?

BBC  

What does a world without Airbnb look like? Getty Images Short-term rentals, including Airbnbs, have long been a flash point in Barcelona With Barcelona announcing a total ban on short-term rentals from the end of 2028, how will decisions to curb Airbnb and others in the world's major cities change how we travel? The decision is designed to solve what …

Renters across L.A. are under strain and many fear becoming homeless, survey finds
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Renters across L.A. are under strain and many fear becoming homeless, survey finds

LA Times  

High rents are putting many Angelenos under strain, according to a new survey. Nearly 4 in 10 renters in Los Angeles County have worried about losing their homes and becoming homeless in the last few years, according to the results of a new survey from UCLA. The 2024 Quality of Life Index, prepared by UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, …

Airbnb rentals could be harder to come by in Hawaii. Here’s why and when that might happen
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Airbnb rentals could be harder to come by in Hawaii. Here’s why and when that might happen

LA Times  

Hawaii lawmakers are hoping that phasing out short-term rentals could help ease its worsening housing crisis, where locals face the highest housing costs in the nation and one of the worst rates of homelessness. Two bills that would allow for new regulation of “transient accommodations” have moved readily through the state legislature this spring, and if passed, could provide new …

Crackdown on Airbnb and other short-term rentals likely coming to unincorporated L.A. County
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Crackdown on Airbnb and other short-term rentals likely coming to unincorporated L.A. County

LA Times  

Airbnbs and other short-term rentals in unincorporated areas will be restricted to hosts who are renting out their primary residence, under a proposal that gained preliminary approval from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The proposed ordinance, five years in the making, would prohibit hosts from listing second homes, guesthouses, accessory dwelling units or investment properties in …

L.A. Airbnb hosts are charging higher rates and raking in big payouts amid city crackdown
1 year, 4 months ago

L.A. Airbnb hosts are charging higher rates and raking in big payouts amid city crackdown

LA Times  

Airbnb rates and revenues for hosts are rising as the city tries to crack down on illegal listings. As the city tries to crack down on illegal listings, and advocacy groups complain about the company’s effect on L.A.’s housing crisis, hosts are charging higher rates than ever while raking in bigger and bigger payouts. Much of the drop was due …

Nearly 1 in 5 Airbnb listings in L.A. violated city law, advocacy group says
2 years, 9 months ago

Nearly 1 in 5 Airbnb listings in L.A. violated city law, advocacy group says

LA Times  

L.A. City Councilman Mike Bonin and community groups called in 2019 for the city to move ahead with enforcement of short-term rental regulations. Nearly 1 out of every 5 listings advertised by Airbnb hosts in Los Angeles over a 12-month period failed to comply with the city’s regulations on short-term rentals, according to a report prepared by a coalition of …

L.A. and Airbnb launch system meant to help with enforcing rental rules
4 years, 4 months ago

L.A. and Airbnb launch system meant to help with enforcing rental rules

LA Times  

Dozens of Venice residents and advocates rally on the Venice Boardwalk in 2015 to call on the Los Angeles City Council to regulate short-term rentals. Los Angeles and Airbnb have launched a new system meant to help the city ferret out and remove illegal listings from the online platform, a step that L.A. officials say is crucial to enforcing its …

Thousands of online listings are violating L.A.’s new short-term rental law
4 years, 5 months ago

Thousands of online listings are violating L.A.’s new short-term rental law

LA Times  

Tenant activists celebrated when Los Angeles ushered in new rules to clamp down on renting homes for short stays, saying the city needed to stop landlords who were running apartment buildings like hotels. The Times analysis found that as of early June, nearly 5,000 Airbnb listings for short-term rentals in Los Angeles lacked city registration numbers. “These reductions are largely …

Airbnb's Flame-Out In The COVID-19 Pandemic Could Be Good News For Renters And Homebuyers
4 years, 8 months ago

Airbnb's Flame-Out In The COVID-19 Pandemic Could Be Good News For Renters And Homebuyers

Huff Post  

A woman browses the site of home sharing giant Airbnb on a tablet in Berlin, April 28, 2016. According to data from consultancy Host Compliance, these “ghost hotel” operators accounted for 30 per cent of the homes listed on Airbnb, but 80 per cent of the company’s revenue. Scott Chatford, CEO of analytics firm AirDNA, argues that in a time …

Airbnb operators take huge hit amid bushfires, coronavirus, causing some to reconsider the platform
4 years, 10 months ago

Airbnb operators take huge hit amid bushfires, coronavirus, causing some to reconsider the platform

ABC  

The twin disasters of bushfires and coronavirus have devastated Australia's tourism industry resulting in a massive decline in visitor numbers and booking enquiries. Key points: A glut of properties in the short-term rental market is causing housing stress with a lack of rentals available for long-term tenants Airbnb recommended that owners in Cairns reduce their prices due to a decline …

More L.A. homes could be rented out on Airbnb. Tenant activists aren’t happy
5 years, 2 months ago

More L.A. homes could be rented out on Airbnb. Tenant activists aren’t happy

LA Times  

Marc Bochner, who lives in one of the apartments in the Westlake triplex that he owns, argues it would be unfair to ban him from hosting short-term rentals in his home just because his apartment falls under the Rent Stabilization Ordinance. Los Angeles could loosen one of the key restrictions in its new rules clamping down on Airbnb-type rentals, allowing …

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