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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When you sign up for an account at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kinkbnb.com\" target=\"_blank\">KinkBNB.com\u003c/a>, you’re given a list of password security questions. Some are recognizable from other websites: Where was your mother born? What is your third-grade teacher’s last name?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, however, are much less conventional, but more fitting of KinkBNB’s clientele. Top or bottom? What is your safe word? Sadist or masochist?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many other sites capitalizing on the sharing economy, KinkBNB hopes to fill a void. The San Francisco-based startup operates much like its namesake, \u003ca href=\"http://As%20a%20host,%20Eve%20Minax%20thinks%20there%20are%20a%20lot%20of%20advantages%20to%20using%20the%20site%20to%20advertise%20her%20Potrero%20Hill%20playroom,%20for%20both%20herself%20and%20for%20her%20guests.%20%22In%20my%20house,%20%C2%A0the%20residence%20is%20clean,%20there's%20not%20as%20much%20traffic%20as%20there%20would%20be%20at%20a%20hotel,%20and%20I'm%20going%20to%20treat%20you%20as%20a%20house%20guest,%22%20she%20said.%20%22It's%20like%20what%20you%20would%20want%20a%20B%20'n'%20B%20to%20be%20like,%20only%20for%20people%20who%20are%20able%20to%20be%20themselves,%C2%A0maybe%20even%20in%20ways%20they%20can't%20be%20at%20home.%22\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb\u003c/a>, but provides more erotic accommodations. Hosts can rent out their bedrooms, sex dungeons and porn production studios. In exchange, guests gain access to an intimate getaway.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Darren McKeeman was inspired to launch the site when a friend of his, local sex educator \u003ca href=\"http://eveminax.com\" target=\"_blank\">Eve Minax\u003c/a>, made a complaint about Airbnb on Facebook earlier this year. Her listing on the home-sharing site, which advertised access to her personal dungeon as an additional amenity, had unexpectedly vanished. The post included potentially graphic photos of the room, which Minax says were taken by an Airbnb photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(According to Airbnb's terms of service, the company prohibits users from being able to \"post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any Content that ... is defamatory, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive.\" A spokesman from the company adds: \"Removing an individual from Airbnb is rare and done only after serious consideration and a review of a variety of factors.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McKeeman, who has had a long career in tech and IT, saw Minax's Facebook post and immediately bought the KinkBNB url. It cost him $12. Ryan Galiotto, co-owner of SoMa's \u003ca href=\"http://www.wickedgrounds.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Wicked Grounds Kink Cafe & Boutique\u003c/a>, and Matias Drago soon rounded out the team. The site now has listings in more than 60 cities and 20 countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KinkBNB, hosts can list the various amenities of their rentals, from free Wi-Fi and washer/dryer access to whether or not the space is orgy-friendly. In the Bay Area, posts range from a modern apartment in Nob Hill to a pagan church in Emeryville. But McKeeman's favorite listing is a prison cell in Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You get no amenities,\" he said. \"You get nothing. No heat, no air-conditioning, no fancy dungeon. It's just a prison cell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10761391\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10761391\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM-800x514.png\" alt=\"Eve Minax's listing on KinkBNB.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM-800x514.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM-400x257.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM-1440x925.png 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM-1180x758.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM-960x617.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Screen-Shot-2015-11-10-at-5.35.06-PM.png 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eve Minax's listing on KinkBNB.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Building a dungeon or playroom can be expensive, costing hundreds or thousands of dollars in equipment and square footage. KinkBNB can help hosts subsidize their spaces, while providing guests an outlet if they can't afford their own. The founders hope to appeal to a variety of tourists, from the couple taking a sexy staycation away from the kids to the newlyweds on a honeymoon who want a raunchy alternative to their hotel for the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's virtually impossible to travel if this is something that you do and it's part of your lifestyle,\" Drago said. \"You go across the country to your cousin's wedding and you don't know anyone else there who would understand. When you stay with one of our hosts, they're very likely to know the community and connect you to people that would be on the same wavelength.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KinkBNB's listings are currently available at overnight rates, but the men hope to launch an hourly payment option as well, so that guests don't have to make a full night's commitment if they need only a few hours of playtime. The company has also developed relationships with organizations like New York's Red Umbrella Project, an advocacy group for sex workers, and they believe that their hourly rates could appeal to those in the industry across the world. But, Drago adds, \"We're also going to pretty much say, 'Look, stay within the law and do what's legal, and that's different in every state and every country.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since KinkBNB's focus is solely on the sex-positive community, the site's founders don't see themselves as a direct competitor to Airbnb. Still, they feel fortunate to be a part of the same Bay Area tech scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are sex-positive communities throughout the world, but [San Francisco] has the greatest mix of tech and awareness,\" Galiotto said, and the city provides its share of unique networking opportunities. 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"content": "\u003cp>Despite the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/11/03/san-francisco-2015-election-results\" target=\"_blank\">defeat\u003c/a> of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/06/how-san-franciscos-prop-f-would-change-airbnb-rentals\" target=\"_blank\">Proposition F\u003c/a> and its stricter rules on short-term rentals, San Francisco is still legislative light-years ahead of other California cities in regulating rental platforms like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco passed its initial law regulating Airbnb-type rentals more than a year ago. It now has a city office -- a small one, so far -- dedicated to administering and enforcing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precursor to San Francisco's legislative action was an agreement with Airbnb in which the company would collect a hotel tax from guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though few cities in California have attempted to pass and enforce restrictions on short-term rentals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/653/in-what-areas-is-occupancy-tax-collection-and-remittance-by-airbnb-available\" target=\"_blank\">eight cities in the state\u003c/a> have reached an agreement with Airbnb to remit the taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231698816\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tax First, Ask Questions Later?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tax collection agreement has benefits for both cities and operators like Airbnb. Cities get a new stream of revenue, and platforms gain legitimacy by coming to terms with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cities should go ahead and make their units subject to the transit occupancy tax right away,\" says Karen Chapple, a professor of urban planning at UC Berkeley. \"Why not take that first move, while we're still figuring out that regulation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreements are not always a precursor to more expansive regulation, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"dsJkDW2CH7xicOk57plk0fXUutQfDqfv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Santa Clara is the most recent California city to begin collecting taxes from Airbnb, and officials there say they have no intention of taking on legislation to regulate short-term rentals. When the City Council \u003ca href=\"http://sireweb.santaclaraca.gov/sirepub/cache/2/eq14msd1nepqabvo0spvym1q/7294861105201512165731.PDF\" target=\"_blank\">passed a tax agreement\u003c/a> in September, the chief concern of many members seemed to be whether the deal would go into effect fast enough to collect taxes from renters during the Super Bowl, which the city hosts in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to be proactive in capturing revenue for the Super Bowl,\" City Attorney Richard Nosky told the council in September. \"Our code does not have any use restrictions on rentals ... so we didn't see a need to regulate short-term rentals and kick that rock.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, short-term rentals have been seen as a direct threat to permanent rental units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In Santa Clara, that's not the case. Many of our homes are occupied by one or two people,\" says Mayor Jamie Matthews. \"This will give people an opportunity to try out what it's like to be able to have part of their home or accessory unit rented. That might lead to additional affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ready use for that new stream of tax revenue would be to offset the loss of affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't set up a regulatory system that is going to cost us a lot of money to implement,\" Chapple says. \"Ideally, what we want to do with this hotel tax revenue coming in is put it into an affordable housing trust fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Cost of Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the beachside city of Santa Monica made headlines by enacting a ban on the short-term rental of a full unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation was more straightforward than the rules in San Francisco. By banning all rentals of a full unit and placing no restrictions on hosts renting out a spare bedroom, the city doesn't need to keep track of the number of nights a unit was rented. Under San Francisco's ordinance, full unit rentals are capped at 90 nights a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Santa Monica begins its enforcement effort in earnest, it's finding it needs to devote every penny of the hotel tax in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The money that we are going to collect on the now-legal short-term vacation rentals is only enough to pay for the two code people and staff analyst to do effective enforcement against the illegal ones that were doing us so much damage,\" says Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown. \"So it's probably going to be revenue-neutral for the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been loath to give cities like San Francisco and Santa Monica specific data on rentals that might aid enforcement. A state bill to require the release of that information \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB593\" target=\"_blank\">stalled earlier this year in the state Senate. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Holding Off on Tax Agreement \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's largest city is taking a different approach: holding off on a tax agreement while legislation plods through the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10747654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10747654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1180x1447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged the city to move ahead on a tax agreement, but some council members have expressed concern that taking the money now would muddy the waters if the city imposes regulations on short-term rentals later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this would actually put the cart before the horse,\" said City Councilman Mitch Englander at a Budget and Finance Committee meeting over the summer. \"To go forth and say, 'Let's go ahead and look at this revenue' before we've set off a path of having the policy in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city will instead move ahead with committee hearings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/09/29/54719/city-takes-publics-pulse-on-short-term-rentals/\" target=\"_blank\">public meetings\u003c/a> and staff studies before an ordinance moves to the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Airbnb Stays on Message \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, says the leading short-term rental platform is comfortable reaching agreements with cities, like San Diego, in which short-term rentals are not fully legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to pay taxes, we're happy to pay taxes, we want to contribute,\" he says. \"When we can collect and remit, it's a great thing for a city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb may have gotten a bit too excited about its willingness to fill city coffers with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/22/airbnb-concedes-it-goofed-with-dear-san-francisco-ads\" target=\"_blank\">series of billboards\u003c/a> in San Francisco last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads notified city and county agencies of the things they could be doing with the $12 million in tax money that Airbnb remitted on the behalf of hosts. Not mentioned was the possibility some of the money could be used to fund the Office of Short-Term Rentals, which currently is budgeted for \u003ca href=\"http://openbook.sfgov.org/openbooks/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Reports%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27Budget%27%5d&ui.name=20Budget&run.outputFormat=&run.prompt=false\" target=\"_blank\">just $475,000\u003c/a> in the current fiscal year and $464,630 for next fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the ads that threatened to become a snatching-defeat-from-the-jaws-of-victory marketing blunder didn't move the needle enough for voters to approve Prop. 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Many of our homes are occupied by one or two people,\" says Mayor Jamie Matthews. \"This will give people an opportunity to try out what it's like to be able to have part of their home or accessory unit rented. That might lead to additional affordable housing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One ready use for that new stream of tax revenue would be to offset the loss of affordable housing units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We shouldn't set up a regulatory system that is going to cost us a lot of money to implement,\" Chapple says. \"Ideally, what we want to do with this hotel tax revenue coming in is put it into an affordable housing trust fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>High Cost of Enforcement\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the beachside city of Santa Monica made headlines by enacting a ban on the short-term rental of a full unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regulation was more straightforward than the rules in San Francisco. By banning all rentals of a full unit and placing no restrictions on hosts renting out a spare bedroom, the city doesn't need to keep track of the number of nights a unit was rented. Under San Francisco's ordinance, full unit rentals are capped at 90 nights a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, as Santa Monica begins its enforcement effort in earnest, it's finding it needs to devote every penny of the hotel tax in that direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The money that we are going to collect on the now-legal short-term vacation rentals is only enough to pay for the two code people and staff analyst to do effective enforcement against the illegal ones that were doing us so much damage,\" says Santa Monica Mayor Kevin McKeown. \"So it's probably going to be revenue-neutral for the city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb has been loath to give cities like San Francisco and Santa Monica specific data on rentals that might aid enforcement. A state bill to require the release of that information \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB593\" target=\"_blank\">stalled earlier this year in the state Senate. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Los Angeles Holding Off on Tax Agreement \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's largest city is taking a different approach: holding off on a tax agreement while legislation plods through the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10747654\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10747654\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg\" alt=\"Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.\" width=\"800\" height=\"981\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-800x981.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-400x491.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1440x1766.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-1180x1447.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/11/Garcetti-960x1178.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. \u003ccite>(Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mayor Eric Garcetti has urged the city to move ahead on a tax agreement, but some council members have expressed concern that taking the money now would muddy the waters if the city imposes regulations on short-term rentals later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think this would actually put the cart before the horse,\" said City Councilman Mitch Englander at a Budget and Finance Committee meeting over the summer. \"To go forth and say, 'Let's go ahead and look at this revenue' before we've set off a path of having the policy in place.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the city will instead move ahead with committee hearings, \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/09/29/54719/city-takes-publics-pulse-on-short-term-rentals/\" target=\"_blank\">public meetings\u003c/a> and staff studies before an ordinance moves to the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Airbnb Stays on Message \u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Lehane, head of global policy for Airbnb, says the leading short-term rental platform is comfortable reaching agreements with cities, like San Diego, in which short-term rentals are not fully legalized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We want to pay taxes, we're happy to pay taxes, we want to contribute,\" he says. \"When we can collect and remit, it's a great thing for a city.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb may have gotten a bit too excited about its willingness to fill city coffers with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/22/airbnb-concedes-it-goofed-with-dear-san-francisco-ads\" target=\"_blank\">series of billboards\u003c/a> in San Francisco last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads notified city and county agencies of the things they could be doing with the $12 million in tax money that Airbnb remitted on the behalf of hosts. 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"content": "\u003cp>Tens of thousands of tech workers have flooded into San Francisco in recent years, changing the face of the city. How will they affect the upcoming election?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”euoK6Sh12GY9mcweKJitUKuGbBZcxtCT”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Let’s begin by agreeing that there is no techie block vote. We’re not talking about \u003ca href=\"http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Borg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Borg\u003c/a> here. But more to the point, the data don’t back up the assumption that all tech workers vote the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not a variable that says ‘techie’ that we can check off,” says David Latterman, who runs the quantitative research firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.flanalytics.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fall Line Analytics\u003c/a>. He has crunched political data locally for more than a decade, and he thinks the most salient factor is not so much what people do for a living but how old they are and how recently they arrived in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know 50-year-old techies on the far left, and [others] who are staunchly conservative, and everything in between,” Latterman says. “The older they get, the more they diffuse into the city and the body politic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ned Lerner, director of engineering at Sony Computer Entertainment America, typifies that older techie voter. “I only started voting local when I thought of myself as part of the local community, which took a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 56-year-old resident of the Richmond district moved to San Francisco in 1995. Lerner says his attitude about voting changed after he became a homeowner and a parent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m much more likely to think about what is better — or worse — for my kids,” Lerner says. “I’m also increasingly aware of how complex the world is, which the issues on the ballot reflect, how the process is manipulated by those who have a personal stake, and how inadequate my knowledge is — and very likely, the knowledge of those who I might defer to, including the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latterman adds: “A lot of younger people, they’re not focused yet. People like to talk: ‘You know, we have this tech group mobilized.’ No, they don’t. There’s no evidence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, he says, because young tech workers are not likely to vote, they’re not being targeted by political candidates and campaigns, either with mailers or social media. At least, not in this year’s election, given that there’s no hotly contested race at the top of the ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Airbnb, which has reportedly spent\u003ca href=\"http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-spends-8-million-against-prop-f-2015-9\"> $8 million\u003c/a> to defeat \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201510050900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Proposition F\u003c/a>, might be the only compelling ballot draw, David Latterman says, mainly because the company has spent so much money to raise public awareness.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Latterman’s assessment is widely shared by other analysts who watch San Francisco politics closely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the jury is still out as to how politically engaged the majority of new young tech workers are,” says Rachel Brahinsky, assistant professor of urban affairs at the University of San Francisco. “You may have some people who are new to the city and haven’t figured out how to plug in yet. They may be just out of college and aren’t that politicized necessarily. Some of them are. Some of them aren’t. And then if they’re getting some of these tech jobs, they are very, very busy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s the stereotype: the young recent arrival to San Francisco who lives in a bubble, shuttling between home and work, the bar and coffee bar, with nary a thought to civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enough from the political pundits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Let’s Talk To More Techies\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I headed for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sightglasscoffee.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sightglass Coffee\u003c/a>, South of Market. It’s hip, spacious and packed with people who work in tech. Over the hum and swoosh of beans being roasted on-site, people hold business meetings or tap away diligently on their laptops. I expected to meet disengaged workaholics. Instead, I ran into 26-year-old Bill Rowan, a software engineer who’s been living in Cole Valley for three years. Does he vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Has he voted yet this year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not yet,” Rowan replies. “I know I still have a little more time to make my selections, but I’ve already started studying the issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rowan is so serious about doing his civic duty that he’s a member of the nonprofit San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association (or \u003ca href=\"http://www.spur.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPUR\u003c/a>) and attended a recent meeting to learn more about this year’s ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I do meet a couple of guys who don’t vote, like Amit Desai, who’s lived in SoMa for seven years. He works in marketing for a software company. Desai is 44. So, according to prevailing wisdom, he should be politically active. But no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m largely apolitical.” He chalks it up to cynicism, even though Desai says he’s troubled by the way the housing crisis has affected the cultural diversity of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a great city, pretty city,” Desai says. “But it’s definitely becoming less diverse. At this rate, we’re going to have something akin to Manhattan, for techies, as opposed to bankers. More homogenous, wealthy group of residents, plus commuters and tourists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to myself the KQED mic flag might be scaring away “brogrammers,” the stereotypical frat boy programmer everybody loves to hate. Or perhaps I’m attracting a self-selecting data pool of voters. I meet one middle-aged tech worker who refuses to talk on tape. He says he listens to KQED and he knows he’ll come off badly admitting he doesn’t vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the more time I spend at Sightglass, the more I meet young people working in tech who are really, really politically engaged. None more so than 24-year-old Will Hayworth, a software developer for \u003ca href=\"https://www.atlassian.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Atlassian\u003c/a>. Hayworth voted the same night the ballot arrived in the mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t fall asleep because I was so excited to vote!” Hayworth laughs. Despite moving to San Francisco just a year and a half ago, Hayworth can go down the list of housing measures from memory, thoughtfully explaining each vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are already seeing how high rents are re-shaping the city, and not in good ways,” they say. (Hayworth identifies as genderqueer, so I’ll be using the pronoun “they” from here on out.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ask if Hayworth’s passion for politics is considered normal by friends and co-workers. Sipping on a vanilla iced cold brew, they say no. “When you try and discuss it and everything, you just sort of get blank stares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayworth’s interest makes a lot more sense when you learn politics is a family concern. Their mother \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r1DuHYhDtU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nan Hayworth\u003c/a> was a Republican congresswoman in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel loathed as a gay guy, sometimes. I feel loathed as a Republican among the gays. And I feel loathed as a techie by everybody who’s not in tech,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With fingernails painted bright blue, Hayworth taps on an iPhone to pull up a photo of a poster you can still find slapped on telephone poles around SoMa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10725875\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10725875\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-800x642.jpg\" alt='\"Brogrammers off the block,\" this poster up in SoMa reads. \"Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17114_IMG_0596-001.JPG-qut-400x321.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Brogrammers off the block,” this poster up in SoMa says. “Attention all lemmings/employees of Airbnb, Apple, DoubleDutch, Dropbox, Facebook, Google, SV Angels, Ron Conway, Scott Weiner, TechCrunch, Twitter, Uber, Yahoo. You are hereby advised to leave the Mission. Your next warning will not be so polite.” \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Will Hayworth)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The logic of the poster isn’t exactly clear. Only the Mission is mentioned, although tech workers have reshaped a number of neighborhoods in the city. The list of companies seems to favor those that get a lot of media coverage, as opposed to, say, a list of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/subscriber-only/2015/03/06/san-francisco-tech-employers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">top tech employers\u003c/a> in San Francisco. Whatever the case, Hayworth resents the malice communicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody, but nobody would confuse me for a brogrammer. I hope,” Hayworth says. “The fact they would just tar such a big group of people without knowing any of them. You know, obnoxious people in a bar do not represent, like, the entire tech community. And it’s really unfortunate that political discourse in San Francisco kind of throws all these people together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do I relate my findings here at Sightglass to what political analysts who parse voting data say? I went back to David Latterman to get his take. 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But no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m largely apolitical.” He chalks it up to cynicism, even though Desai says he’s troubled by the way the housing crisis has affected the cultural diversity of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is a great city, pretty city,” Desai says. “But it’s definitely becoming less diverse. At this rate, we’re going to have something akin to Manhattan, for techies, as opposed to bankers. More homogenous, wealthy group of residents, plus commuters and tourists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think to myself the KQED mic flag might be scaring away “brogrammers,” the stereotypical frat boy programmer everybody loves to hate. Or perhaps I’m attracting a self-selecting data pool of voters. I meet one middle-aged tech worker who refuses to talk on tape. 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The bond measure requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass, and could set a precedent for other Bay Area counties contending with their own housing shortages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a supercharged rental market that ranks as the most expensive nationwide and \u003ca href=\"http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2015/09/17/new_map_compares_sf_housing_prices_to_the_most_expensive_neighborhoods_around_the_world.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even compares with pricey neighborhoods internationally\u003c/a>, there’s massive unmet need for affordable housing throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unusual to get three, four, even 5,000 applicants for a 50- or 70-unit apartment building when it opens,” Doug Shoemaker, president of affordable housing developer Mercy Housing California, said in an interview with KQED News. “We need to demonstrate to people that there are solutions to these problems, and the bond is a huge part of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsored by San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and backed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors, the measure has widespread support and has won endorsements from the San Francisco Democratic Party and\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Chronicle-recommends-Yes-on-S-F-Prop-A-6517019.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, which noted that while it would barely put a dent in the city’s affordable housing crisis, Prop. 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But a hearing at Wednesday’s Budget and Finance Committee, called by Supervisor David Campos, seeks to determine whether the existing ordinance and newly created enforcement agency have been effective at collecting taxes from private short-term rentals and enforcing the existing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Proposition I: Mission Moratorium\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition I seeks to impose a temporary moratorium on luxury housing construction in San Francisco’s Mission District for at least 18 months, halting the construction of market rate housing and any project larger than five units. It would also develop a stabilization plan to preserve land that could be used for affordable housing in the area, which has been impacted by gentrification and displacement of long-time residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal was introduced by Campos. The Mission District supervisor \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/01/san-francisco-supervisors-debate-proposed-market-rate-housing-moratorium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">squared off against Supervisor Scott Wiener earlier this year on \u003cem>KQED Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, drawing a lively response from listeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our strategy says to protect, to preserve the limited amount of land, let’s do a pause on luxury housing so that the city can actually buy these parcels and begin to build as quickly as possible,” Campos said during that program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wiener shot back: “If we don’t build the new housing, we’re going to see the pressure cooker in the Mission become an even worse pressure cooker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A report by San Francisco’s Office of Economic Analysis determined that a temporary moratorium\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-report-finds-mission-moratorium-would-drive-up-housing-costs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> would not prevent the displacement\u003c/a> of current residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents of the measure, meanwhile, say it’s needed in order to allow time to plan for more affordable-housing construction. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener is running for the state Senate in 2016, he announced Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's angling for the seat of Sen. Mark Leno, a fellow Democrat who will term out of representing the district that includes San Francisco and northern San Mateo County. Leno is among a list of endorsements that Wiener included in his campaign announcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state is growing, the region is growing, San Francisco is growing,\" Wiener said, \"and we need to keep up and make sure that we are sustainable for the long run. 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The company released data in advance of the vote showing that residents in nearly all San Francisco neighborhoods would have to rent out homes for over 200 nights a year on Airbnb to equal the money they would get from a normal rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the report concludes that the extra income residents make by renting out their homes is \"the one thing making it possible for thousands of middle-class families to stay in the city they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one expects Tuesday's vote to end San Francisco's short-term rental debate. The group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareBetter SF\u003c/a> has filed a measure for the November ballot that would enact many provisions found in Campos' bill. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Tuesday 6:20 p.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A majority of San Francisco supervisors voted to postpone action on two competing measures aimed at strengthening short-term rental regulation in the city -- but an unhappy minority forced some debate before the continuance passed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A vote for a continuance is a vote for Airbnb,\" Supervisor John Avalos said about an hour into the debate, as it became increasingly clear that most supervisors supported moving the issue to the Board's July 15 meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Avalos co-sponsored David Campos' proposal that contained stronger enforcement mechanisms and a shorter, 60-day cap on how many days a unit can legally be rented on the \"sharing economy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supervisors either behind Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell's competing ordinance, or ones who thought there might be common ground between the two measures, outnumbered Campos' supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would welcome these additional conversations on this complicated topic,\" Farrell said. \"From my perspective, we passed a framework last year, now let’s take the time to get it right.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell's ordinance would impose a 120-day cap and doesn't require the company to report data to the city, a provision officials with the city's planning department have called a \"lynchpin\" in their ability to enforce any limit on Airbnb rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Campos’ legislation goes too far and is not the appropriate response,\" Supervisor Scott Wiener said, adding that many people in his district are clinging to their homes through money they're making on short-term rentals. \"Sixty days is not going to meet these needs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos criticized a law that took effect Feb. 1, and Airbnb's role in crafting it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason that we are in this mess is because we have as a city decided to roll over for a $20 billion corporation and let that corporation write the laws that should be written by the elected legislators,\" Campos said. \"The last thing that we need in this building is to give the lobbyists of Airbnb more time to do what they have been doing in this building for the last couple of years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell's motion for a continuance passed 7-4, with supervisors Katy Tang, Norman Yee, London Breed, Julie Christensen, Malia Cohen, Wiener and Farrell in favor. Eric Mar, Jane Kim, Avalos and Kim opposed the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a year after a messy, drawn-out debate over how to regulate short-term rentals like those found on Airbnb, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors will take up the issue again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will vote Tuesday on two plans to change the current ordinance governing how city residents can rent out their homes on a short-term basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most supervisors are in agreement that the law (which took effect in February) \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/23/San-Francisco-Tighten-Airbnb-Law\" target=\"_blank\">is not working\u003c/a>, particularly in cracking down on hosts who rent out their entire homes for more than the currently allowed 90 days a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dueling plans, one from Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell, the other from Supervisor David Campos, would both set a hard cap on the length of all rentals, which are currently unlimited if the host stays in the home while renting out a room.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The fact that short-term rentals are taking housing off the market in the middle of this brutal housing crisis is simply unacceptable.'\u003ccite class=\"alignright\">Supervisor David Campos\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The plan from Lee and Farrell would give the city more resources to register residents and enforce the law by creating a new office staffed through other city agencies to handle short-term rentals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The city has to be the primary enforcement agency here,\" says Farrell. \"It's a law that we're creating and that we should be tasked with enforcing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor David Campos wants to give more enforcement power to neighbors and nonprofits, who under his plan would be able to institute civil proceedings against hosts, even if a violation has not been determined by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that short-term rentals are taking housing off the market in the middle of this brutal housing crisis is simply unacceptable,\" Campos said at a Land Use and Transportation Committee meeting last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Airbnb disputes Campos' assertion that short-term rentals are tied to the city's housing crunch. The company released data in advance of the vote showing that residents in nearly all San Francisco neighborhoods would have to rent out homes for over 200 nights a year on Airbnb to equal the money they would get from a normal rental.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the report concludes that the extra income residents make by renting out their homes is \"the one thing making it possible for thousands of middle-class families to stay in the city they love.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one expects Tuesday's vote to end San Francisco's short-term rental debate. The group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareBetter SF\u003c/a> has filed a measure for the November ballot that would enact many provisions found in Campos' bill. Campos has said he will support that measure if he can't achieve his goals at the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ShareBetter SF released a poll on Monday, conducted by Goodwin-Simon Strategic Research, showing strong support for two key pieces of Campos' plan: a provision that would bar Airbnb from listing properties that aren't registered with the city, and another giving neighbors a private right-of-action against hosts who violate the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In late January, Daniel Moore came home to his apartment in a 12-unit complex on College Avenue to find there was a new keypad lock on the front gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, who had been living at 3100 College for 12 years, didn’t have the combination to the keypad. He was locked out of his own building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was just the first of a series of mysterious changes to the apartment complex, alterations that his landlords never told him about. Suddenly, washer and dryer units were installed on every landing. New couches appeared in the hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Moore started hearing loud noises from the unit above him. It appeared as if a family of five had moved in suddenly, and the kids were stomping on the new stone kitchen floor. That family moved out, but was replaced by others, people who stayed up until 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that three units in Moore’s rent-controlled building had been converted into short-term rentals through online rental company Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Airbnb has replaced our quiet environment with noise, anxiety and the nuisance of a steady flow of transients who have no investment in living here,” Moore wrote in a letter he sent to the City Council and the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.\u003cspan id=\"more-192743\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of apartments into a short-term rentals, where guests come and go, is part of a trend that is sweeping Berkeley. While renting out apartments to anyone for less than 14 days is prohibited under Berkeley law, hundreds of homeowners are renting out rooms, suites, whole houses, cottages — even a tent and a yurt — according to listings posted on Airbnb, VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner), Home Away and other short-term rental websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can find a bed in an apartment of UC Berkeley students for as little as $26 a night, or a house in the hills with a pool for $700 a night. There were 1,162 different units for rent in Berkeley in April, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">according to a city staff report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden influx of short-term rentals, coupled with a shortage of housing, has become a huge issue in the Bay Area as the technology boom has lured thousands of well-paid people to the region. Rents have risen and evictions have increased. While the issue has been most acute in San Francisco, Berkeley is now feeling its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant activists, as well as the Rent Stabilization Board, are concerned that short-term rentals are contributing to a housing crisis. They are not overly worried about the casual hosts who rent a bed or a room in a home they live in. They are most troubled by property owners who remove units with kitchens from the market, thereby decreasing Berkeley’s housing supply. There are about \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">400 rent-controlled units now being used only as short-term rentals,\u003c/a> according to the Rent Stabilization Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renting units primarily as vacation rentals is contributing to the housing crisis,” the Rent Board told the City Council in a letter sent in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whole units that could be rented to people who live and work here should not be rented to tourists,” said Katherine Harr, speaking as a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. (She is also on the Rent Board, but was not speaking in that capacity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have noted that those renting for less than 14 days are not paying any taxes on their properties, even though Berkeley’s bed-and-breakfast establishments must do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners who rent out for short terms often stand to make a substantial amount of money, certainly more than if they rented month to month. For example, Moore and his wife, Yenli, pay $1,785 a month for their 850-square-foot space on the second floor of a building within easy walking distance of the shops in the Elmwood. The building’s owners, Jack L. and Margaret C. Phillips, are renting out three apartments in that complex on Airbnb for $125 a night, meaning they can earn as much as $3,750 a month if they rent the units every day for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only property they are renting out on a short-term basis. They are also renting other units at 2616 Parker St., 2619 Regent St., and 2435 Virginia St., as well as 3100 College Ave., \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">according to information gathered by the Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s?host_id=7933344\">they are offering 11 spaces \u003c/a>for rent on Airbnb. They do not reside in any of the properties. Collectively, their Airbnb listings have an earning potential of $35,790 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Tenants Union \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">has identified at least eight other commercial hosts\u003c/a> in Berkeley who are renting out multiple units in Berkeley and may be removing what was once permanent rental housing from the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/real-estate/\">Read more real-estate stories on Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Claude Zamanian, a Realtor and contractor in San Francisco, lists 13 units in five separate rent-controlled properties. They have the potential to bring in $41,670 a month, according to the BTU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marina Ekman and Adelina Esquerra have a single-family home at 2928 Ellsworth, not subject to rent control, that they have split into nine separate units available for rental. The owners of an\u003ca href=\"http://www.oxford-apartments.com/berkeleyapartmentrental.htm\"> Oxford fourplex near the UC Berkeley campus\u003c/a>, which has kitchens and could be used for long-term housing, is also listed for short-term housing on Home Away, according to the BTU. There is also a woman named Esperanza C. Garcia who has nine units for rent in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Tenants Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquerra did not respond to an email asking her to comment on her Airbnb units. Berkeleyside tried to find contact information for the Phillipses and Zamanian and the other owners, but was unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City enforcement is lacking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the prohibition against renting for less than 14 days, Berkeley officials do not appear to be cracking down on the problem, and may even be confused by what the law actually says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pruess and his wife (who asked that her name not be used), and their young daughter, live in a duplex near the North Berkeley BART station. For two years, another couple lived upstairs from them. They became good friends, often had dinner together, worked in the garden together, and had keys to one another’s apartments. Since the duplex only had one thermostat – in the upstairs apartment – that informal arrangement was critical to the Pruess family's comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upstairs neighbors moved out in mid-December and the landlord converted the unit to a short-term rental in January. Since then, a succession of people has moved in and out of the unit, said Pruess. The experience has been dreadful, particularly since there is a newborn in the house and no one is getting much sleep. Some Airbnb renters had jet lag and were up at all hours making noise. Others smoked cigarettes, which is illegal in Berkeley. Some had parties. Users have thrown trash into the yard, (Pruess’ lease specifies that he has to keep the yard clean), filled recycling bins with garbage, and turned off the heat, making the family's below-grade apartment too cold for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst experience was when a family from China came to stay. The parents picked oranges from Pruess’ tree and gave them to their toddler, who proceeded to pelt the chickens in the yard. When Pruess complained in sign language (the renters did not speak English), the family just laughed in his face, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think you are living in a residential zone and all of a sudden there is a hotel above you,” said Pruess. “Not only that, but a hotel without any employees. Our landlord lives in another city. He wasn’t there to mitigate whatever problems there might be, or handle things, or be aware of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess isn’t even sure where his landlord, Peter Louie, lives. He thinks it is San Francisco, but all he has is a post office box address for him. The couple writes rent checks to Radiant Services, a property management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\"> posting on Airbnb\u003c/a> lists the unit upstairs from Pruess as “The Farmhouse,” and says the host is a man named Lorenzo, although some of the guest comments mention dealing with a Peter. Pruess does not know who “Lorenzo” is, but he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2165574\">rents out a studio near Dolores Park\u003c/a> in San Francisco, according to Airbnb. \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/san-francisco-report-shows-impact-of-airbnb-on-rental-market/723431/\">That unit was recently the subject of a story\u003c/a> on ABC News that said a Peter Louie evicted the tenant to convert the apartment into an Airbnb unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside contacted Peter Louie’s attorney, David Semel, who said he does not represent any of Louie’s Berkeley properties. Berkeleyside could not find contact information for Louie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Confusion over legality of short-term rentals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pruess contacted the Rent Board with a series of questions in January, and a staff member mistakenly told him that short-term rentals were legal so there was nothing he could do. He also attended a clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center and was told the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then tried pleading with his landlord, who agreed to put a rug in the upstairs unit, but declined to stop renting out the apartment on Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then heard that the Rent Board had created an ad hoc committee on short-term rentals. He contacted them and its members told him what his landlord was doing was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess went to Berkeley’s code enforcement division to explore filing a complaint against his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to code enforcement once. They said the issue is proving that Airbnb is being done. You have to prove people are there less than 14 days and are paying rent for it,” said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess said he plans to file a complaint this week with Berkeley’s code enforcement division. The last straw came last week when his landlord set up a time for his wife to talk to the Pruesses. She never called, said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for the city of Berkeley, would not specify what information code enforcement would need to investigate a short-term rental complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t disclose what evidence or strategies we use, as it could hinder enforcement,” said Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore also tried to reason with his landlords at 3100 College Ave., but found it difficult. They never told him the new code for the gate; he had to hunt down the building manager to get it. \u003cdel>It took them days to hand out the code for the keypad lock, forcing tenants to essentially break into their own front yard, said Moore.\u003c/del> The code was not given to the mailmen or UPS drivers, and there was no working intercom to call up to the units. There are still days when Moore doesn’t get his mail because there is a new mailman who doesn’t know the code and can’t get to the mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Moore knocked on the door of the unit above him, which had been rented to a couple using Airbnb, and asked them to be quiet. He then told the renters that “running a hotel in our building violates the city’s ordinances, and that it would be a good idea if they inquired in the future whether their Airbnb hosts are operating in a rent-controlled building,” he told Berkeleyside in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Airbnb tenants reported the visit to the Phillipses, and Moore received a warning letter from Jack and Margaret Phillips a short time later. The landlords said that Moore’s actions violated the terms of his lease that specified that he “shall not disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors.” The Phillipses went on to say: “This letter, which is sent by Registered E-mail, is a warning to you that: (a) your actions (described above) are a direct violation of your rental agreement; and (b) following this notice, any repeat of those – or similar – actions would be good cause for eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phillipses have offered the Moores $7,000 to move out, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our landlords want us out big time,” said Moore. “We are a problem for them. We complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Short-term rentals are impacting business at B&Bs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants are not the only ones affected by the bump in short-term rentals available in Berkeley. Proprietors of bed-and-breakfast establishments are also feeling the squeeze. Berkeley grandfathered in 12 B&B establishments when it prohibited short-term rentals in 2003. Only about eight are still operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Harrow, who runs Mary’s Bed & Breakfast at 47 Alvarado Rd, said she has noticed a drop in the number of people inquiring about her rooms, which cost $150 a night. The decline coincided with the rise of Airbnb and other online sites, she said. Harrow said she cannot lower what she charges because she must pay city hotel taxes and provide breakfast to her customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Sprague, who runs the Brick Path B&B, said her business fluctuates but she cannot be sure if Airbnb is the cause. “I don’t have any way of knowing concretely,” she said. (Sprague \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45264?checkin=05%2F29%2F2015&checkout=06%2F03%2F2015&s=ArJ7\">also lists her rooms\u003c/a> on Airbnb.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are grappling with how to respond to the increase in short-term rentals. The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal by Mayor Tom Bates and City Councilwoman Lori Droste on May 26 that will essentially legalize and tax some short-term rentals -- but not in rent-controlled or other buildings that could be used for long-term housing for Berkeley residents. Under the proposed law, which will be sent to the Planning and Housing commissions for review, the units in Moore’s building and the unit in the Pruesses’ building could not be converted to short-term rentals because the property owners don’t live in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ and Droste’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">proposal \u003c/a>will allow people living in a home at least nine months of the year to rent out a bedroom as often as they like when they are home. If the hosts leave for vacation, they can only rent out their unit for a maximum of 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you own an apartment house and you live in Apartment 2, that’s the only one you can rent out,” Bates told Berkeleyside. “The rent-controlled places, they have vacancies and (the landlords) are renting out those vacant units as Airbnb … that would be prohibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed law would also require the property owner to inform neighbors of the plan, provide a local contact in case there are complaints, require a business license and carry $500,000 in liability insurance, among other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law would impose a transient occupancy tax on all rentals, to be collected by the host or the rental-platform company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most significantly, the proposal would add a 2-3 percent tax on top of the transient occupancy tax. Those funds would be used to hire extra code enforcement officers to make sure property owners are following city rules, said Bates. He referred to San Francisco, which passed legislation in February restricting homeowners to renting out their property for only 90 days. But only a handful of the thousands of property owners on Airbnb, Home Away and other services have registered their properties, making enforcement difficult, said Bates. He hopes Berkeley will not encounter the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rent Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/final.Comments-to-Council-on-Short-Term-Rentals-1.pdf\">sent a letter to the City Council \u003c/a>supporting the proposed measure, but cautioned that Berkeley needs a strong enforcement mechanism to ensure the system works. Jesse Townley, president of the Rent Board, also asked that the Rent Board “have a voice” in crafting local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sid Lakireddy, the president of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said the Bates/Droste proposal, and the letter sent by the Rent Board, is missing one huge element: the fact that tenants in rent-controlled units often rent out their apartments on Airbnb and other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It that person isn’t living there, why should they be entitled to rent-controlled rent in a rent-controlled unit?” said Lakireddy. “That’s one unit staying off the market. That is one thing (the Rent Board) has completely failed to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out some short-term rentals available in Berkeley:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p478910vb\">A $700-a-night house with a pool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6366936?s=9wMR\">A $26-a-night room in an apartment with UC Berkeley students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\">“The Farmhouse” mentioned in the story\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s/berkeley?price_max=90&property_type_id%5B%5D=34&keywords=tent&ss_id=h19sj2i3\">Tents and yurts for rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Support independent local journalism by \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/support-berkeleyside/\">\u003cb>becoming a Berkeleyside member\u003c/b>\u003c/a>\u003cb>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In late January, Daniel Moore came home to his apartment in a 12-unit complex on College Avenue to find there was a new keypad lock on the front gate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, who had been living at 3100 College for 12 years, didn’t have the combination to the keypad. He was locked out of his own building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was just the first of a series of mysterious changes to the apartment complex, alterations that his landlords never told him about. Suddenly, washer and dryer units were installed on every landing. New couches appeared in the hallways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then Moore started hearing loud noises from the unit above him. It appeared as if a family of five had moved in suddenly, and the kids were stomping on the new stone kitchen floor. That family moved out, but was replaced by others, people who stayed up until 3 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It turns out that three units in Moore’s rent-controlled building had been converted into short-term rentals through online rental company Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Airbnb has replaced our quiet environment with noise, anxiety and the nuisance of a steady flow of transients who have no investment in living here,” Moore wrote in a letter he sent to the City Council and the Berkeley Rent Stabilization Board.\u003cspan id=\"more-192743\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The conversion of apartments into a short-term rentals, where guests come and go, is part of a trend that is sweeping Berkeley. While renting out apartments to anyone for less than 14 days is prohibited under Berkeley law, hundreds of homeowners are renting out rooms, suites, whole houses, cottages — even a tent and a yurt — according to listings posted on Airbnb, VRBO (Vacation Rentals by Owner), Home Away and other short-term rental websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can find a bed in an apartment of UC Berkeley students for as little as $26 a night, or a house in the hills with a pool for $700 a night. There were 1,162 different units for rent in Berkeley in April, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">according to a city staff report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sudden influx of short-term rentals, coupled with a shortage of housing, has become a huge issue in the Bay Area as the technology boom has lured thousands of well-paid people to the region. Rents have risen and evictions have increased. While the issue has been most acute in San Francisco, Berkeley is now feeling its effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant activists, as well as the Rent Stabilization Board, are concerned that short-term rentals are contributing to a housing crisis. They are not overly worried about the casual hosts who rent a bed or a room in a home they live in. They are most troubled by property owners who remove units with kitchens from the market, thereby decreasing Berkeley’s housing supply. There are about \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">400 rent-controlled units now being used only as short-term rentals,\u003c/a> according to the Rent Stabilization Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renting units primarily as vacation rentals is contributing to the housing crisis,” the Rent Board told the City Council in a letter sent in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whole units that could be rented to people who live and work here should not be rented to tourists,” said Katherine Harr, speaking as a member of the \u003ca href=\"http://berkeleytenants.org/\">Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. (She is also on the Rent Board, but was not speaking in that capacity).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials have noted that those renting for less than 14 days are not paying any taxes on their properties, even though Berkeley’s bed-and-breakfast establishments must do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners who rent out for short terms often stand to make a substantial amount of money, certainly more than if they rented month to month. For example, Moore and his wife, Yenli, pay $1,785 a month for their 850-square-foot space on the second floor of a building within easy walking distance of the shops in the Elmwood. The building’s owners, Jack L. and Margaret C. Phillips, are renting out three apartments in that complex on Airbnb for $125 a night, meaning they can earn as much as $3,750 a month if they rent the units every day for 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not the only property they are renting out on a short-term basis. They are also renting other units at 2616 Parker St., 2619 Regent St., and 2435 Virginia St., as well as 3100 College Ave., \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">according to information gathered by the Berkeley Tenants Union\u003c/a>. In total, \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s?host_id=7933344\">they are offering 11 spaces \u003c/a>for rent on Airbnb. They do not reside in any of the properties. Collectively, their Airbnb listings have an earning potential of $35,790 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley Tenants Union \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Item-10_Apr-3-2015-Agenda.pdf\">has identified at least eight other commercial hosts\u003c/a> in Berkeley who are renting out multiple units in Berkeley and may be removing what was once permanent rental housing from the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/category/real-estate/\">Read more real-estate stories on Berkeleyside\u003c/a>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Claude Zamanian, a Realtor and contractor in San Francisco, lists 13 units in five separate rent-controlled properties. They have the potential to bring in $41,670 a month, according to the BTU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Marina Ekman and Adelina Esquerra have a single-family home at 2928 Ellsworth, not subject to rent control, that they have split into nine separate units available for rental. The owners of an\u003ca href=\"http://www.oxford-apartments.com/berkeleyapartmentrental.htm\"> Oxford fourplex near the UC Berkeley campus\u003c/a>, which has kitchens and could be used for long-term housing, is also listed for short-term housing on Home Away, according to the BTU. There is also a woman named Esperanza C. Garcia who has nine units for rent in Berkeley, according to the Berkeley Tenants Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esquerra did not respond to an email asking her to comment on her Airbnb units. Berkeleyside tried to find contact information for the Phillipses and Zamanian and the other owners, but was unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>City enforcement is lacking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the prohibition against renting for less than 14 days, Berkeley officials do not appear to be cracking down on the problem, and may even be confused by what the law actually says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Pruess and his wife (who asked that her name not be used), and their young daughter, live in a duplex near the North Berkeley BART station. For two years, another couple lived upstairs from them. They became good friends, often had dinner together, worked in the garden together, and had keys to one another’s apartments. Since the duplex only had one thermostat – in the upstairs apartment – that informal arrangement was critical to the Pruess family's comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upstairs neighbors moved out in mid-December and the landlord converted the unit to a short-term rental in January. Since then, a succession of people has moved in and out of the unit, said Pruess. The experience has been dreadful, particularly since there is a newborn in the house and no one is getting much sleep. Some Airbnb renters had jet lag and were up at all hours making noise. Others smoked cigarettes, which is illegal in Berkeley. Some had parties. Users have thrown trash into the yard, (Pruess’ lease specifies that he has to keep the yard clean), filled recycling bins with garbage, and turned off the heat, making the family's below-grade apartment too cold for the baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The worst experience was when a family from China came to stay. The parents picked oranges from Pruess’ tree and gave them to their toddler, who proceeded to pelt the chickens in the yard. When Pruess complained in sign language (the renters did not speak English), the family just laughed in his face, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You think you are living in a residential zone and all of a sudden there is a hotel above you,” said Pruess. “Not only that, but a hotel without any employees. Our landlord lives in another city. He wasn’t there to mitigate whatever problems there might be, or handle things, or be aware of things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess isn’t even sure where his landlord, Peter Louie, lives. He thinks it is San Francisco, but all he has is a post office box address for him. The couple writes rent checks to Radiant Services, a property management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\"> posting on Airbnb\u003c/a> lists the unit upstairs from Pruess as “The Farmhouse,” and says the host is a man named Lorenzo, although some of the guest comments mention dealing with a Peter. Pruess does not know who “Lorenzo” is, but he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/2165574\">rents out a studio near Dolores Park\u003c/a> in San Francisco, according to Airbnb. \u003ca href=\"http://abc7news.com/realestate/san-francisco-report-shows-impact-of-airbnb-on-rental-market/723431/\">That unit was recently the subject of a story\u003c/a> on ABC News that said a Peter Louie evicted the tenant to convert the apartment into an Airbnb unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeleyside contacted Peter Louie’s attorney, David Semel, who said he does not represent any of Louie’s Berkeley properties. Berkeleyside could not find contact information for Louie.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Confusion over legality of short-term rentals\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Pruess contacted the Rent Board with a series of questions in January, and a staff member mistakenly told him that short-term rentals were legal so there was nothing he could do. He also attended a clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center and was told the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then tried pleading with his landlord, who agreed to put a rug in the upstairs unit, but declined to stop renting out the apartment on Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess then heard that the Rent Board had created an ad hoc committee on short-term rentals. He contacted them and its members told him what his landlord was doing was illegal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess went to Berkeley’s code enforcement division to explore filing a complaint against his landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I talked to code enforcement once. They said the issue is proving that Airbnb is being done. You have to prove people are there less than 14 days and are paying rent for it,” said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pruess said he plans to file a complaint this week with Berkeley’s code enforcement division. The last straw came last week when his landlord set up a time for his wife to talk to the Pruesses. She never called, said Pruess.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matthai Chakko, a spokesman for the city of Berkeley, would not specify what information code enforcement would need to investigate a short-term rental complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t disclose what evidence or strategies we use, as it could hinder enforcement,” said Chakko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore also tried to reason with his landlords at 3100 College Ave., but found it difficult. They never told him the new code for the gate; he had to hunt down the building manager to get it. \u003cdel>It took them days to hand out the code for the keypad lock, forcing tenants to essentially break into their own front yard, said Moore.\u003c/del> The code was not given to the mailmen or UPS drivers, and there was no working intercom to call up to the units. There are still days when Moore doesn’t get his mail because there is a new mailman who doesn’t know the code and can’t get to the mailboxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Moore knocked on the door of the unit above him, which had been rented to a couple using Airbnb, and asked them to be quiet. He then told the renters that “running a hotel in our building violates the city’s ordinances, and that it would be a good idea if they inquired in the future whether their Airbnb hosts are operating in a rent-controlled building,” he told Berkeleyside in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Airbnb tenants reported the visit to the Phillipses, and Moore received a warning letter from Jack and Margaret Phillips a short time later. The landlords said that Moore’s actions violated the terms of his lease that specified that he “shall not disturb, annoy, endanger or interfere with other tenants of the building or neighbors.” The Phillipses went on to say: “This letter, which is sent by Registered E-mail, is a warning to you that: (a) your actions (described above) are a direct violation of your rental agreement; and (b) following this notice, any repeat of those – or similar – actions would be good cause for eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Phillipses have offered the Moores $7,000 to move out, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our landlords want us out big time,” said Moore. “We are a problem for them. We complain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Short-term rentals are impacting business at B&Bs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Tenants are not the only ones affected by the bump in short-term rentals available in Berkeley. Proprietors of bed-and-breakfast establishments are also feeling the squeeze. Berkeley grandfathered in 12 B&B establishments when it prohibited short-term rentals in 2003. Only about eight are still operating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Harrow, who runs Mary’s Bed & Breakfast at 47 Alvarado Rd, said she has noticed a drop in the number of people inquiring about her rooms, which cost $150 a night. The decline coincided with the rise of Airbnb and other online sites, she said. Harrow said she cannot lower what she charges because she must pay city hotel taxes and provide breakfast to her customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Sprague, who runs the Brick Path B&B, said her business fluctuates but she cannot be sure if Airbnb is the cause. “I don’t have any way of knowing concretely,” she said. (Sprague \u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45264?checkin=05%2F29%2F2015&checkout=06%2F03%2F2015&s=ArJ7\">also lists her rooms\u003c/a> on Airbnb.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials are grappling with how to respond to the increase in short-term rentals. The City Council is scheduled to consider a proposal by Mayor Tom Bates and City Councilwoman Lori Droste on May 26 that will essentially legalize and tax some short-term rentals -- but not in rent-controlled or other buildings that could be used for long-term housing for Berkeley residents. Under the proposed law, which will be sent to the Planning and Housing commissions for review, the units in Moore’s building and the unit in the Pruesses’ building could not be converted to short-term rentals because the property owners don’t live in the units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bates’ and Droste’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/2015-05-26-Item-21-Short-Term-Rental.pdf\">proposal \u003c/a>will allow people living in a home at least nine months of the year to rent out a bedroom as often as they like when they are home. If the hosts leave for vacation, they can only rent out their unit for a maximum of 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you own an apartment house and you live in Apartment 2, that’s the only one you can rent out,” Bates told Berkeleyside. “The rent-controlled places, they have vacancies and (the landlords) are renting out those vacant units as Airbnb … that would be prohibited.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed law would also require the property owner to inform neighbors of the plan, provide a local contact in case there are complaints, require a business license and carry $500,000 in liability insurance, among other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law would impose a transient occupancy tax on all rentals, to be collected by the host or the rental-platform company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most significantly, the proposal would add a 2-3 percent tax on top of the transient occupancy tax. Those funds would be used to hire extra code enforcement officers to make sure property owners are following city rules, said Bates. He referred to San Francisco, which passed legislation in February restricting homeowners to renting out their property for only 90 days. But only a handful of the thousands of property owners on Airbnb, Home Away and other services have registered their properties, making enforcement difficult, said Bates. He hopes Berkeley will not encounter the same problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Rent Board \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/final.Comments-to-Council-on-Short-Term-Rentals-1.pdf\">sent a letter to the City Council \u003c/a>supporting the proposed measure, but cautioned that Berkeley needs a strong enforcement mechanism to ensure the system works. Jesse Townley, president of the Rent Board, also asked that the Rent Board “have a voice” in crafting local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sid Lakireddy, the president of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said the Bates/Droste proposal, and the letter sent by the Rent Board, is missing one huge element: the fact that tenants in rent-controlled units often rent out their apartments on Airbnb and other sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It that person isn’t living there, why should they be entitled to rent-controlled rent in a rent-controlled unit?” said Lakireddy. “That’s one unit staying off the market. That is one thing (the Rent Board) has completely failed to address.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Check out some short-term rentals available in Berkeley:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p478910vb\">A $700-a-night house with a pool\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/6366936?s=9wMR\">A $26-a-night room in an apartment with UC Berkeley students\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/4917885?s=_9VJ\">“The Farmhouse” mentioned in the story\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.airbnb.com/s/berkeley?price_max=90&property_type_id%5B%5D=34&keywords=tent&ss_id=h19sj2i3\">Tents and yurts for rent\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, April 30th: \u003c/strong>Share Better San Francisco filed a ballot measure on Wednesday to tighten restrictions on short-term rental platforms and hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next month , the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' Land Use and Transportation Committee is expected to take up the dueling proposals to amend the city's short-term rental law. Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell's short-term rental proposal, which would limit all rentals to 120 days per year, received the recommendation of the Planning Commission last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post: \u003c/strong>Less than three months into implementation of an ordinance to legalize and regulate short-term rentals in San Francisco, city leaders and planners agree the law needs more work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance, which took effect Feb. 1, established a framework to register hosts and enforce limits on guest stays booked on popular services like Airbnb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But new data from San Francisco's Planning Department, the agency tasked with registering hosts and enforcing the law, shows that \u003ca href=\"http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/2014-001033PCA.pdf\">just 455\u003c/a> of the estimated 5,000 Airbnb hosts in the city have registered so far. As for enforcement, the department has yet to issue a single citation against law-breaking hosts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday, San Francisco's Planning Commission is set to consider changes to the law to address both the low registration rate and lack of enforcement. Two proposals -- one from Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Mark Farrell, and another from Supervisors David Campos, Eric Mar, and John Avalos -- include strict limits on rental lengths, whether or not a host is home during a guest's stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosts are currently allowed to rent out their entire home for 90 days a year. There is no limit on \"hosted rentals,\" when a host stays in their home while a guest is visiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That distinction is very difficult for our enforcement staff to determine,\" says Scott Sanchez, an administrator with the Planning Department, which supports a hard cap on rental lengths. \"Going to a straight number of day limit and not requiring it to be hosted or unhosted just makes the enforcement a lot more straightforward and transparent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Key Differences in Proposals\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's plan would limit a host's Airbnb-style rentals to 120 days a year; Campos' plan would impose a cap of 60 days. The proposals also differ on how to help the Planning Department enforce the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Lee's legislation, a new city office would process applications and crack down on hosts who illegally rent out units. Sanchez says his department supports the plan to bring together the expertise of the Department of Building Inspection and the Tax Collector's Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance from Supervisor Campos would instead empower neighbors and affordable housing nonprofits to bring legal action against hosts who violate the law, even if a violation has not been determined by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Enforcement is going to take a role by everyone, not just the city,\" Campos says. \"That there are limits in terms of what the city can do and limitations in what the city can know.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To that end, Campos wants rental platforms like Airbnb to make sure all postings are registered with the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My experience has been that Airbnb will do things not because we ask nicely but because we require them to do them,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ballot Measure Moving Ahead\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If his proposal fails, Campos says he'll support a planned November ballot measure that could provide another chance to limit short-term rentals in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group \u003ca href=\"http://www.sharebettersf.com/\" target=\"_blank\">ShareBetter San Francisco\u003c/a> plans to file an initiative next week that would include many of the changes proposed by Supervisors Campos, Avalos and Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A letter from ShareBetter cofounder Dale Carlson to the Planning Commission says Lee's proposal \"incentivizes the continued conversion of residential units to de facto hotel rooms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based Airbnb supported the city's initial ordinance, which housing activists and others characterized as a major victory for the company. 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