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Los Angeles City Council Bans Traditional Vacation Rentals      

Los Angeles City Council Bans Traditional Vacation Rentals      
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Alexa Nota
December 15, 2018

On Tuesday, Los Angeles city council voted 12 – 0 to limit short-term rentals to primary residences for a maximum of 120 days per year, termed “home-sharing” by the city. Homes under the rent stabilization ordinance may not qualify for home-sharing. The ordinance will go into effect July 1, 2019.

Home-sharers must register with the city for $89 annually and display their city registration number in all advertisements. Home-sharers who have been registered for six months or hosted for at least 60 days may apply for extended home-sharing, an exception to allow them to rent their home for an unlimited number of days per year, for a fee of $850 per year. Fees for violations run as high as $2,000 per day.

Hosts must adhere to other rules around building codes, parking, and guest conduct. The city will also collect a per night fee on rentals to support enforcement.

“This outcome is the result of a lack of understanding of short-term rentals and series of disconnected efforts by industry stakeholders,” said Matt Curtis, founder of Smart City Policy Group. “The regulations strip the compliance that comes from professional property managers… In every studied market that bans professional property managers, we see compliance drop and individual owners operate second homes under the radar, without paying taxes.”

The vote comes after more than three years of debate between affordable housing advocates and the hotel industry lobby on one side and short-term rental advocates on the other.

“As we went through this process we have tried to find a way to make a distinction between good short-term rentals and bad short-term rentals,” said councilmember Mike Bonin, who co-introduced the bill, “Good short-term rentals being genuine home-sharing, people sharing their home to make their ends meet, bad short-term rentals being the rogue hotel operators who are robbing the residents of this city of rental housing and making gentrification worse and making the affordable housing crisis worse.”

“We full-heartedly endorse this ordinance,” Charlie Carnow, research analyst for hospitality labor union UNITE HERE Local 11, said in his testimony on Tuesday. “LA has lost over 10,000 units to short-term rentals, worsening our affordable housing crisis, which threatens to push even more people into homelessness.”

“Short-term rentals make up only 1 percent of the rental market,” said Heather Carson, a short-term rental host in the city. “If you eliminated every single one right now and turned it into long-term housing, it would be, by definition, unaffordable because it would be at market rate. You will not be solving anything. In fact, you would put more of your constituents into freefall and housing insecurity.”

According to AlltheRooms.com, there are as many as 16,000 whole-home short-term rentals in the city. According to Discover Los Angeles, 48.3 million travelers visited the city in 2017.

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  1. Robert StGenis says:
    December 18, 2018 at 6:47 pm

    Key players in the Planning Department in LA have long seen having a separate ordinance for Vacation Rentals. This way there can be additional fees, added regulations, not necessarily restrictions in terms of days but perhaps things like types and locations. Unite Here wants none of it. The CA Hotel & Lodging Association has said they have “no problem” as long has STRs have the same “burdens” that hotels do. Does that mean sprinklers in your 1920 stucco duplex? Handicap ramps that are otherwise ADA exempt? Having served as the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Short Term Rental Alliance for over 3 years, I am the expert on this topic. The council does not have sympathy for secondary mostly multi-millionaire homeowners. Given the cost of homes here, having a second one already puts one in the category. Arguing that putting homes onto the long term market would still make them affordable also only rubs people wrong. We are short nearly 100k homes that need to be built in the city of LA to have any impact on affordable housing. STRs are a sacrificial lamb. It seems that the years of efforts are leading to some resolve. It also seems that some have gotten smarter in their approach. Our firm is always here to continue help.

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  2. Kaitlyn says:
    December 17, 2018 at 11:19 am

    Regulation of short-term rentals is key. Traditional homeowners insurance doesn’t cover vacation rental business activities, communities are recognizing this and regulation requiring at least $500,000 of liability can prevent allot of potential problems. Policies like the one Proper Insurance sells (https://www.proper.insure/) make short term renting lucrative and safe.

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  3. Bob Wexler says:
    December 16, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    Don’t give up just yet! VR will be considered during the 1st Q 2019. There is still an open motion that calls for:
    “upon the effective date of an ordinance authorizing and regulating short-term rentals in non-primary residences (with the goal of such ordinance being approved by July 1, 2019)”

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Industry News for Vacation Rental Managers
December 15, 2018
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Alexa Nota

Alexa Nota is the co-founder and COO of Rent Responsibly. A journalist and marketer by trade, Alexa has served in many roles in the industry, including marketing director for a property management companies on North Carolina’s Outer Banks and Telluride, CO. She also served as vice president of VRM Intel where she reported on STR regulations around the country. Here she realized the need and passion for engaged local alliances and associations in order to create fair regulations and a secure home for vacation rentals in every destination's tourism economy. Together with David Krauss in 2019, she co-founded Rent Responsibly, a community-building and education platform for local vacation rental alliances. Learn more at RentResponsibly.org.

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