San Francisco's Airbnb Vote

Yesterday San Francisco voted against toughening rule on short-term rentals inwards the city. The Los Angeles Times has mapped the results. The Proposition F Results Map shows which precincts inwards the urban meat voted for too against the measures too the departure betwixt yes too no votes inwards each precinct.

Despite the rejection of novel tougher measures on short-term rentals, criticisms of the trial of short-term rental companies on the housing marketplace don't await similar going away. Airbnb inwards item seems to live on inwards the firing business of many housing campaigners.


For example, Inside Airbnb has mapped the lay out of 'whole houses' been listed on Airbnb inwards a lay out of cities around the world. In San Francisco 57.4% of Airbnb properties are whole houses / apartments.

Inside Airbnb argues that the trial of such a high lay out of whole properties existence listed on Airbnb is to take much needed belongings from the housing marketplace too tin besides live on disruptive to neighbors of these permanently short-term rented properties.


The San Francisco Chronicle has besides been investigating the trial of Airbnb on San Francisco's housing problems. The Chronicle's investigation, Airbnb's Impact inwards San Francisco, includes a map measurement Airbnb action inwards the urban meat past times neighborhood. The map includes 3 choropleth layers showing the lay out of Airbnb listings past times neighborhood, the average toll inwards each neighborhood too the lay out of reviews per neighborhood.

The Chronicle's map reveals that 4.8 percentage of hosts inwards San Francisco convey 3 or to a greater extent than properties. These ability users may good live on commercial landlords exploiting the service to brand higher profits from short-term rentals rather than from renting out their properties to long term tenants. The trial of this could live on to take much needed housing stock from the market. 

So, although Airbnb may convey won the battle over Proposition F, I suspect that the country of war over short-term rentals inwards San Francisco may rage on a lilliputian longer.