Protesters decry proposal they say would create short-term rental ‘loophole’ - LA Daily News

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• Afraid of eviction laid off hospitality worker Jaime Sandoval, who has not worked since March, protests the city council adding more short-term rentals in Los Angeles outside Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s field office in West Adams neighborhood on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Afraid of eviction laid off hospitality worker Jaime Sandoval, who has not worked since March, protests the city council adding more short-term rentals in Los Angeles outside Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s field office in West Adams neighborhood on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

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• Pricsilla Velasquez and Alex Sandoval leave over a hundred signed letters for Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson in the Fame Renaissance building where he has a field office as laid off hospitality workers, fearing eviction, protest the city council adding more short-term rentals in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Afraid of eviction laid off hospitality workers and their Unite Here Local 11 union organizers gather at Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s field office in West Adams neighborhood to protest the city council adding more short-term rentals in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Afraid of eviction laid off hospitality workers and their Unite Here Local 11 union organizers gather at Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s field office in West Adams neighborhood to protest the city council adding more short-term rentals in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

• Afraid of eviction laid off hospitality workers and their Unite Here Local 11 union organizers gather at Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s field office in West Adams neighborhood to protest the city council adding more short-term rentals in Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Community groups and hospitality workers gathered outside Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson’s office this week to speak out against a proposal that they say would exempt so-called “vacation rentals” from existing short-term rental regulations.

The proposed vacation rental ordinance could provide a loophole that, protesters said, could lead to affordable housing to be turned into short-term Airbnb-style rental units instead. Under the current regulations, short-term rentals are permitted only at primary residences, but the vacation rental ordinances opens up homes not considered primary residences to being rented out for short periods.

The protesters called on the city to better enforce existing short-term rental regulations, instead of allowing the vacation rental ordinance that could potentially circumvent those laws to go through.

The activists gathered outside Harris-Dawson’s office because he chairs the Planning and Land Use Management Committee that earlier this month voted 3-1 to advance the vacation rental ordinance to the full City Council, which is expected to take up the issue in December.

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