Home Sharing and Vacation Rentals Ordinance

Home Sharing Ordinance 

The current ordinance restricts short term rentals to primary residences.  There is a new ordinance under consideration - the Vacation Rentals Ordinance - that would allow limited rental of non-primary residences.  The current proposal is to allow owners to rent out a single non-primary residence in the City for 30 days per year.  As with the Home Sharing Ordinance, pending violations (code violations, party house violations, etc.) would bar the residence from being rented.  

Airbnb has removed listings for 28 homes in the hills identified as nuisance properties.  We don't know the addresses yet or whether any of the homes were in our area but this is an excellent development.  You can read about it here.

If a loud party (or other nuisance activity) occurs at an Airbnb in your area, now you can call the hotline at (213) 267-7788 in addition to the normal calls to the LAPD.  You can also email planning.home-sharing.enforcement@lacity.org.  

If you believe that an Airbnb or other short term rental is operating illegally (too many days, non-primary residence, etc.) you should report by phone but in this case please do report by email as well:  planning.home-sharing.enforcement@lacity.org.