A resident expressing their view about short-term rentals at the Ellison building in Los Angeles' Venice neighborhood in September 2018. (Al Seib/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
New restrictions on Airbnb and similar services in Los Angeles went into effect this week, driven by complaints that an explosion of short-term rentals has turned apartment buildings into hotels and pinched the city’s already tight housing supply.
In a 2017 report, the city’s planning department said between 6,000 to 10,000 units that otherwise likely would have been rented to long-term tenants were being used primarily as short-term rentals.
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