By Jon Brooks and Lisa Pickoff-White, KQED News Fix
San Francisco is considering regulating home rental vacation services like Airbnb in hopes of reducing illegal short-term rentals.
Supervisor David Chiu proposes to let residents rent their dwellings for a period shorter than 30 days, currently illegal for owners and tenants alike. But those who want to legally rent their residences short-term will have to comply with some stiff requirements, and landlords could still prohibit the rentals through language in a lease.
Under Chiu’s proposal, tenants or landlords who want to become Airbnb “hosts” would need to register with the city, prove they occupy the unit 75 percent of the year and pay the same taxes as hotels. Airbnb has already agreed to pay San Francisco’s 14 percent hotel tax.
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