L.A. officials are exploring whether to ease the city's ban on using second homes as short-term rentals. Enforcement of the ban began just weeks ago.
Worried about apartment buildings being run like hotels through websites like Airbnb and VRBO, Los Angeles leaders decided last year to ban people from renting out a home for short stays if it isn’t their main residence.
Doing so has been a goal for Angelenos who host travelers in a second home or other property, many of whom lamented this fall that L.A.’s newly enforced rules were going to land them in Many questioned why the city was pursuing the idea at all, arguing that it should instead focus on cracking down on hosts violating the existing law.
They could host only one vacation rental each. And they could not offer up such rentals in granny flats, affordable housing, rent-stabilized units or apartments recently pulled from the rental market under the Ellis Act. “I don’t want to penalize or punish ways that people are making a living by restricting things too tightly,” said Caroline Choe, one of the commissioners who voted for the proposed rules.The proposal now heads to the Los Angeles City Council, where it is likely to spur more debate: Representatives of three council members — Mike Bonin, Paul Koretz and Monica Rodriguez — came to Thursday’s meeting to oppose it.
Commission President Samantha Millman said that she was nonetheless comfortable with setting a higher limit of 90 nights because the requirement that such rentals be only in homes that are used at least part time by their owners means “they are units that would never be on the traditional market anyway.”Critics contend that permitting vacation rentals would make it harder to enforce the existing rules on renting out homes for short stays.
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