First came the all-night parties and music blaring from a neighbor’s house in Long Beach that kept Andy Oliver up at night. For months, coalition members commiserated on the social media site Nextdoor over their frustrations with the short-term rentals, gathering momentum for a ban. “They didn’t seem to care.”As short-term rentals have spread, the responses across Southern California have varied. In Palm Springs, short-term rentals were capped in specific, high-demand neighborhoods, leading to a local drop in home prices. Similarly, Long Beach originally banned unhosted short-term rentals in the early days of the pandemic.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 20, 2024 17:33 UTC