Yesterday San Francisco voted against toughening rule on short-term rentals inward the city. The Los Angeles Times has mapped the results. The Proposition F Results Map shows which precincts inward the metropolis voted for together with against the measures together with the divergence betwixt yes together with no votes inward each precinct.
Despite the rejection of novel tougher measures on short-term rentals, criticisms of the trial of short-term rental companies on the housing marketplace seat don't expect similar going away. Airbnb inward detail seems to hold out inward the firing business of many housing campaigners.
For example, Inside Airbnb has mapped the position out of 'whole houses' been listed on Airbnb inward a position out of cities closed to the world. In San Francisco 57.4% of Airbnb properties are whole houses / apartments.
Inside Airbnb argues that the trial of such a high position out of whole properties beingness listed on Airbnb is to take much needed holding from the housing marketplace seat together with tin besides hold out disruptive to neighbors of these permanently short-term rented properties.
The San Francisco Chronicle has besides been investigating the trial of Airbnb on San Francisco's housing problems. The Chronicle's investigation, Airbnb's Impact inward San Francisco, includes a map measurement Airbnb action inward the metropolis past times neighborhood. The map includes iii choropleth layers showing the position out of Airbnb listings past times neighborhood, the average toll inward each neighborhood together with the position out of reviews per neighborhood.
The Chronicle's map reveals that 4.8 per centum of hosts inward San Francisco convey iii or to a greater extent than properties. These ability users may good hold out commercial landlords exploiting the service to brand higher profits from short-term rentals rather than from renting out their properties to long term tenants. The trial of this could hold out to take much needed housing stock from the market.
So, although Airbnb may convey won the battle over Proposition F, I suspect that the nation of war over short-term rentals inward San Francisco may rage on a fiddling longer.
