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In addition to only renting out single rooms, I also thought of the scenario where someone goes to visit a relative and rents their whole apartment while they’re away, perhaps when there is some major event in their town that causes all hotels to be sold out. Both of those scenarios would be addressed by the rule I proposed to only allow renting out the primary residence on AirBnB.

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SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Agreed

only allow renting out the primary residence on AirBnB.

Yes this sounds like a good (and importantly very simple) rule

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- xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I think I had heard of the idea before, so I didn’t come up with it. I just did a quick search and one of the first results says LA does this. There are probably other cities too…
  
  steadily.com/…/airbnb-short-term-rental-laws-regu…
  
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  - SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    Primary Residence: Hosts can only list their primary residence—the home where they live for at least six months of the year—as a short-term rental. Registration: A mandatory registration process with the city includes obtaining a Home-sharing permit and paying an annual $89 fee. Hosts must renew this permit and provide evidence of continuous compliance. Annual Cap: Short-term rentals are subject to a 120-day annual cap.
    
    Actually, this is impressive. LA seems to have it’s shit together on this issue. Do you know if house prices are still a problem there?
    
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    xapr@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    
    Do you know if house prices are still a problem there?
    
    Most definitely. Southern California in general has some of the highest housing prices in the US. I think the AirBnB regulations are only part of the equation. They need to drastically reduce the barriers to construction of higher density housing, for instance.
    
    LA actually has “vanlords”, people who rent out old, beat up vans parked on the street to homeless people, for hundreds of dollars a month. Some real dystopian shit if I’ve ever seen any.
    
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