LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Council voted on Jan. 19 to explore amending the city’s municipal code to suspend a property’s ability to be used as a short-term rental if any criminal activity occurred at the location while being rented.
The city’s current ordinance, which was passed in 2018, limits home-sharing to primary residences and requires the hosts to register for a permit. It prohibits platforms such as Airbnb from processing bookings for listings that don’t have a city home-sharing registration number.
