Irvine CA cracks down on Airbnb rentals

As of September 2015, the city had 370 listings on Airbnb, up from about 10 listings two years earlier, according to Beyond Pricing, a company that tracks vacation-rental data. Earlier this month (April 2016), there were 130 Irvine listings on VRBO and HomeAway, a more than fourfold increase from three years ago, company data show.

Irvine is pushing back. Citing rules about hotel taxes and zoning laws that ban hotels from being in residential neighborhoods, city code enforcement officials have issued written warnings to nearly 70 people offering their properties for rent online.