SF News Supervisors Support Law To Fine Airbnb Directly For Unregistered Rental Units San Francisco is a step closer to enacting what the Chronicle estimates would be among the most stringent short-term rental regulation systems in the country. They report that the Board of Supervisors’ Government
SF News New Airbnb Program Allows You To Report Your Awful Neighbors Airbnb just made it easier to rat out that neighbor of yours whose nonstop Airbnb hosting means a never-ending parade of drunk tourists stumbling in and out of your building. Say hello to
SF News Like It Did For Uber Drivers, Treasurer's Office Orders Airbnb Hosts To Get Business Licenses Earlier this month, roughly 37,000 drivers for Uber and Lyft were mailed letters from San Francisco City Treasurer Jose Cisneros indicating that, as contractors, they must apply for business licenses to operate
SF News Campos Proposes Law To Fine Airbnb Directly For Unregistered SF Listings The relationship between Airbnb and San Francisco is something like the one between a difficult host and a defiant houseguest. It's... well, it's not great. In what might have signaled a détente earlier
SF News Airbnb Reportedly In Talks With Labor Union, Will Endorse 'Fight For $15' Airbnb's ongoing bid for respectability appears to be taking another step forward, with The Washington Post reporting today that the home-renting company has approached a major international union with the hopes of forming
SF News Flier Castigates Airbnb Guests For Contributing To 'Eviction Of Chinese Immigrant Families' As spotted in Chinatown, SF (via @antievictionmap) #ThanksAirBnB pic.twitter.com/bvZogzeSLL— Zoé S. (@ztsamudzi) April 12, 2016 Less than two weeks after Airbnb admitted that at least 20 percent of its San
SF News Whomp Whomp: Wooden Box 'Sleeping Pods' Are Illegal, Fire Hazard Outer Sunset resident Peter Berkowitz, 25, had a dream. That dream, to live in a tiny wooden box ("pod") and perhaps sell versions of his human dog crate to others, at first appeared
Arts & Entertainment New App Wants To Be The Airbnb For Hot Tubs, Backyards Have we reached peak app in this our pretty clearly bubbly tech economy of 2016? Some people are still going to tell you no, but I'm here to tell you, and them, about
SF News Airbnb Reveals 20% Of SF Listings Are By Hosts Listing Multiple Homes, Vows Crackdown Airbnb has issued a mea culpa of sorts today, and a reversal of some of its previous rhetoric surrounding the issue of hosts who illegally use the platform to turn themselves into small-scale
Arts & Entertainment Justin Bieber Is Staying At The Same Luxe Los Altos Airbnb Where Beyoncé Stayed Remember how Beyoncé got hooked up with that fancy Airbnb in Los Altos when she and Jay-Z were here for the Super Bowl back in February? Well it appears Justin Bieber got a
SF News City Now Wants To Tax Airbnb Hosts For Their Furniture, Sheets, Utensils, Etc. Airbnb and the City of San Francisco continue their passive-aggressive feud today, as the Chronicle reports: In a bid to completely discourage hosts from actually registering their short-term rentals with the city, as
SF News Airbnb Will Allow Neighbor Feedback On Hosts, Guests, Properties Perhaps you remember the tale, told in our Apartment Sadness column, of an Airbnb situation gone totally haywire on Telegraph Hill. The gist: Some tenancy-in-common (TIC) neighbors have a long-running feud that partially
SF News Airbnb's Listing Of Israeli West Bank Settlements Incites Protest Security only allowed one person inside to deliver #StolenHomes petition with over 140,000 signatures to #airbnb pic.twitter.com/SlbQBQIapw— Steve Rhodes (@tigerbeat) March 11, 2016 These days, it's starting to seem
SF News Day Around The Bay: SCOTUS Allows CA Affordable Housing Requirement Rules To Stand In declining to hear a case challenging San Jose's recent ordinance (upheld by a California court last year), which still hasn't taken effect but is similar to San Francisco's, requiring developers of large
Arts & Entertainment Local Artist Merkley Puts His 'Ugly' Haight 'Dump' On Airbnb Artist and erotic photographer Merkley (who at one time had his name printed as Merkley??? but I'm not going to do that), has put his pretty rad Upper Haight studio on Airbnb, and
SF News Apartment Sadness: A Tale Of A TIC And An Airbnb Gone Really, Really Bad Since there are, after all, lots of sad housing situations in San Francisco these days that do not appear on Craigslist, I'm taking a little moment in this column to highlight one of
SF News Local Sex Workers Stoked About Abundance Of Airbnbs Airbnb's impact on a city is proving a divisive issue around the globe — does the company contribute to the housing crisis by taking units off the market, or does it allow for part-time
SF News Day Around The Bay: Twitter Stock Hits All-Time Low A report alleges that Airbnb manipulated data regarding New York City hosts with multiple listings immediately prior to handing over information to city regulators in December. Airbnb, for its part, denies what the
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Beyoncé Stayed In An Airbnb, You Guys She's just like the rest of us! Does anyone recognize this modern looking Airbnb rental home where Beyoncé, and presumably Jay Z, spent their Super Bowl weekend in the Bay Area? Beyoncé was
SF News The Airbnb Bump That Wasn't: #SB50 Rental Reality Disappoints Out of all the spin thrown at us prior to Super Bowl 50's landing in the Bay Area, there was one bit that, on the face of it, seemed possible. The promise, as
SF News Day Around The Bay: No, Dude, You Can't Rent Your Dorm Room Out On Airbnb An Emerson student in Boston is facing expulsion after he tried to rent out his dorm room via Airbnb. [Guardian] In other higher education news, a student is sick at Santa Clara University
Arts & Entertainment You Can Rent This Guy's North Beach Pad For Super Bowl Weekend For $43K I know you didn't need one more thing to make you hate the Super Bowl, but here's one more anyway. This guy, Cal, is renting his three-bedroom North Beach apartment on Airbnb for
SF News Study: Airbnb Makes Over A Fifth Of Its SF Revenue From Illegal Units A new study released this month claims that over a fifth of the revenue generated in San Francisco by Airbnb is the result of hosts operating in direct violation of San Francisco law.
SF News Airbnb CEO Rented Out His Own Unregistered Airbnb Just last month, People magazine saluted 34-year-old Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky for continuing to generously rent out a couch in his apartment despite having $3 billion to his name. "I still live in
SF News Deplorable Teen Allegedly Pretends To Be Midwestern Adult, Trashes Oakland Airbnb Who could have seen this going so terribly, terribly wrong? An Oakland couple rented their home via Airbnb for New Year's Eve to someone they thought was a middle-aged man from Chicago, only
