Business & Tech Complaints About Illegal Airbnbs in SF Quadrupled Last Year You may have thought that talk of illegal Airbnb units was a thing of the past, but new data from SF's Office of Short-Term Rentals (OSTR) suggests that scofflaws are back at in our fair city.
SF News 7-Story Building At Church And Market Will Be Furnished Airbnb-Type Rentals With 30-Day Minimum Stays Ugh. The 52-unit development that's nearly complete at the prominent flatiron corner of Church and Market, whose design was the subject of lengthy hems and haws by the neighborhood, isn't even going to be regular housing.
SF News Airbnb Dealt Blow By Federal Judge In Their Challenge To SF Crackdown On Illegal Rentals In the midst of Tuesday's chaos, a news item slipped through pertaining to Airbnb and San Francisco's latest attempt to crack down on scofflaw hosts. A federal judge ruled against a preliminary injunction
SF News Judge Grills Airbnb At Hearing Over SF Host Registration Law Airbnb has taken the city of San Francisco to court over a law requiring that the home-rental service verify its hosts are registered with the city or else face steep fines, but if
SF News Airbnb Again At The Center Of Political Play This Election Year As Supervisors Fast-Track Amendments David Campos has built much of his political career on loud calls to preserve housing stock and combat gentrification, and as he approaches the end of his final term as District 9 Supervisor,
SF News City Revises 'Airbnb Law' Additions To Avoid Airbnb Suing Them The Board of Supervisors Tuesday moved to revise the language of some new additions to the so-called 'Airbnb Law' that would fine the company $1,000 per day per illegal unit listed on
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 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 Sue Thy Neighbor: Airbnb Stokes Fears Of 'Lawsuit Vigilantism' In Fight Against Prop F The small print on the new website, No On F, reads "Paid for by SF For Everyone, No on Proposition F, Sponsored and Major Funding by Airbnb." SF For Everyone is, as the
SF News It Looks Like We Will Be Voting On Changing The 'Airbnb Law' In November Opponents of SF's short-term rental ordinance, dubbed the 'Airbnb Law,' that was passed by the Board of Supervisors last October, have succeeded in gathering almost 16,000 signatures to get a proposition
SF News Just How Many Apartments In SF Are Being Used As Full-Time Airbnb Rentals? A few weeks back the city's Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, at the behest of Supervisor David Campos, put out a report in which they attempted to estimate how many "commercial users"
SF News Planning Department Won't Force Airbnb To Share Records Airbnb has no plans to hand over records necessary to enforce regulations to the Planning Department, and now the Planning Department has voted four to three that it isn't going to try to
SF News Airbnb Violations Now Being Used More Often Than The Ellis Act In Evicting SF Tenants Many San Francisco renters, especially those living in rent-controlled units, have likely had to sign leases, or revised leases, with their landlords in recent years that specifically prohibit short-term rental of the unit
SF News Airbnb Debuts New PR Campaign With Same Messiah Complex According to a newly launched, pretty straightforward public relations site called airbnbsf.com Airbnb is "under attack" from "bureaucrats." With a series of carefully selected testimonials, one from each district, photogenic locals explain
SF News Day Around The Bay: Port-a-Potty Lands In Lake Merritt This portable toilet appears to have fallen, or was tossed, into the cleanly waters of Oakland's Lake Merritt over the weekend. [JesseBudlong/Twitter] Season of the Witch author David Talbot contemplated running against
SF News Airbnb Law Impossible To Enforce, Says Agency Tasked With Enforcement Less than two months after the controversial Airbnb-legalization ordinance took effect, the city agency that has been dealing with the registration nightmare of the city's many thousands of Airbnb hosts, the Planning Department,
