Airbnb, HomeAway would police rentals under proposed SF law
San Francisco’s struggles to regulate vacation rentals in private homes aren’t over.
Short-term-rental sites like Airbnb and HomeAway/VRBO would be on the hook to ensure that their hosts follow the city’s registration requirements under amendments to an existing law that Supervisors David Campos and Aaron Peskin plan to propose on Tuesday, The Chronicle has learned. Platforms that flout the mandate would face fines of up to $1,000 a day per listing and misdemeanor charges.
“Unless the hosting platforms have a role in enforcement, enforcement is not going to happen,” Campos said. “They have to have some skin in the game.”
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