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San Francisco reaches settlement with Airbnb and HomeAway to enforce short-term rental law
Summary
The city announced a settlement with Airbnb and HomeAway that preserves San Francisco's short-term rental registration law and requires platforms to implement pass-through registration, require city registration numbers before listing, supply monthly listing data to the city, and deactivate invalid listings; the city set a phased compliance timeline and retained federal court jurisdiction for disputes.
San Francisco officials announced on May 3 that the city has reached a settlement with Airbnb and HomeAway that ends litigation challenging the city's short-term rental registration law and establishes a compliance framework between the platforms and the city.
City officials said the settlement accomplishes three core goals: it dismisses the federal legal challenge to the city's short-term rental law; it makes registration easier for…
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