Are you distressed about the San Francisco lodging crisis ? The metropolis ’s newfangled law has your back . Are you worried SF ’s new law might hurt your Airbnb profits ? Airbnb has your back . The rental ship’s company issuing its hometownfor pass on a law requiring renters to file with the city , though Airbnb helped draft that very police . Ah , how money changes citizenry .
A couple years ago , SF and Airbnb together wrote a law that cap unretentive - term rentals at 90 mean solar day in addition to ask renters to register . This would supposedly help the living accommodations crisis by preventing hoi polloi from turn affordable flat into permanent rental residences .
The law of nature sounded good enough then , but this is now and peradventure it sounds too honest … for people who are n’t Airbnb user . Now , only20 % of people who hire out using Airbnbhave registered ( the registrationcosts $ 50and requires paperwork ) , and the company does not need to pay the $ 1,000 - per - day fee fine for every unlisted user and it does not require to pass over out the list of people not obeying the law .
So Airbnb says the law is “ not working ” and , not only that , that it is a free speech usurpation . Airbnb claim the new law — whose fines go into event in July — violates the federal Communications Decency Act , which keep websites from being penalize for content that is publish on them . This , by the way , is the same act that isprotecting societal media situation from being action for helping ISISand that protectssites like YouTube from being repeatedly sued over hosting pirated material . It ’s also been used to protectCraigslist from being sued for hosting ads that supported sex trafficking .
Given that Airbnb ’s ramification with metropolis regularisation has been enough of a headache thatmayors of 10 cities are banding together to prove to figure things out , it ’ll be interesting to see how this plays out . living accommodations crisis versus billionaire start - up ? take hold of the Zea mays everta .
[ New York Times ]
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