Post by High Priestess on Nov 12, 2016 15:30:51 GMT
UP to this point, the short term rental laws in San Francisco have permitted in-home hosts to do unlimited amount of hosting, not limiting number of nights per year that hosts may rent out a room in their home. Hosts may rent out their entire home for up to 90 days a year. However, only some 1700 hosts out of 8000 to 10,000 total hosts, have registered with the city, as required by the law.
Hence, in a move clearly intended to punish those who haven't registered, San Francisco intends to change the law, to cap the number of nights that any host may have short term renters to 60 nights a year, while allowing those already registered to continue to follow the old law -- unlimited hosting for in home hosts and 90 nights a year for whole apartment/home rentals.
This would also punish any NEW hosts, because those who hadn't registered yet for whatever reason, would be subject to the new, more restrictive requirements, which essentially force hosts into running a very part-time, occaisional business (eg, a business that the government forces to operate at 1/6 full capacity).
www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Airbnb-SF-continue-to-thrash-out-vacation-rental-10608886.php
Hence, in a move clearly intended to punish those who haven't registered, San Francisco intends to change the law, to cap the number of nights that any host may have short term renters to 60 nights a year, while allowing those already registered to continue to follow the old law -- unlimited hosting for in home hosts and 90 nights a year for whole apartment/home rentals.
This would also punish any NEW hosts, because those who hadn't registered yet for whatever reason, would be subject to the new, more restrictive requirements, which essentially force hosts into running a very part-time, occaisional business (eg, a business that the government forces to operate at 1/6 full capacity).
www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Airbnb-SF-continue-to-thrash-out-vacation-rental-10608886.php
