Private Property: Regulating Short Term Rentals by Initiative & Referendum.

16,000 signatures have been collected to opposed San Francisco’s short term rental ordinances.

Opposition to the short term ordinances  includes:

• affordable-housing proponents
• organized hotel labor

Opposition stems from the San Francisco short term rental ordinance:

• lacking enforcement teeth
• exacerbating the city’s affordable-housing shortage.

The initiative would amend the current short term rental ordinance to require:

• A cap on the number of nights a unit could be rented at 75 per year, regardless of whether a host is present or not. (current ordinance permits 90 days if owners are away, unlimited if the owner is present)

• Fine home-sharing platforms up to $1,000 a day for listing unregistered short-term rentals.

• Require both hosts and hosting sites to provide quarterly reports to the city on the number of nights a unit was rented.

• Create legal remedies for neighbors of illegal rental units if the city doesn’t act.

The Recorder