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San Francisco supervisors hear update as short‑term rental delisting deadline passes
Summary
The Government Audit & Oversight Committee heard a status report from the Office of Short Term Rentals after the final phase of platform delistings took effect; staff reported more registrations, a surge of late applications and increased enforcement activity, and supervisors asked whether hosts should be allowed to list while applications are pending.
The Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Jan. 17 heard a progress report from the Office of Short Term Rentals after the final phase of a platform delisting process took effect the previous day.
Kevin Guy, director of the Office of Short Term Rentals, told the committee the office has received more than 4,100 applications since the program’s launch in 2015 and currently shows about 2,170 active registered hosts with roughly 1,000 applications under review following a surge of late submissions tied to phased platform deadlines. Guy said the office was seeing daily application spikes of 86 and 88 in the days before the deadline and expects data to stabilize as staff finish processing the backlog.
Why it matters: the 2016 ordinance amendments and the May 2017 settlement with major platforms redirected responsibility for removing unregistered listings to the…
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