ANCs: Push back on McDuffie's short term rental bill

[Anonymous]

DC Council will be holding public hearings on a bill to regulate short term rentals April 26.

The bill, introduced by Council Member McDuffie (Ward 5) would limit short term rentals to 15 days per year if the owner is not present.
http://lims.dccouncil.us/Legislation/B22-0092

Good to see ANCs around the city pushing back on this. See for example the recent resolution of ANC1D (Mt Pleasant).
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/574f2c54b6aa608304000a38/t/58d2a97bf5e231be5b2d8c5f/1490200956182/short-term+rental+regulation.March+2017.pdf

Turning rent control buildings into unlicensed hotels is not OK, but residents want the flexibility to rent out their space in ways that makes sense to them. I hope other ANCs also pick this issue up.

[Anonymous]

I see that lobbyists for Airbnb have already taken to list servs, blogs and social media to oppose this bill!

[Anonymous]

There is a genuine problem here. Like this guy who is listing eight properties on airbnb including an unlicensed four unit building on Rhode Island Ave NW. http://abnb.me/EVmg/v4OoIetSZB

The law should allow people to rent out a spare room or basement short term, but support D.C. Government to crack down on this type of thing which takes potential long term rentals off the market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a genuine problem here. Like this guy who is listing eight properties on airbnb including an unlicensed four unit building on Rhode Island Ave NW. http://abnb.me/EVmg/v4OoIetSZB

The law should allow people to rent out a spare room or basement short term, but support D.C. Government to crack down on this type of thing which takes potential long term rentals off the market.

So what exactly are you suggesting? Please be clear.

[Anonymous]

I wish there was some language in the bill that would either incentivize or require air bnb hosts to make a portion of their unhooked rental nights available to the homeless during hypothermia season.


This city has such a problem with the homeless having no where to get in out of the cold. All they have are steam grates. Every winter, a number of them freeze on our streets.

It would be very simple, a tax credit, or maybe a requirement, that each host would offer up, say, 7 nights a year to the city, so that the homeless could be placed with them on cold nights. It would cost almost nothing, and could save so much.

[Anonymous]

This is a good bill. It allows owners a full 2 weeks of rental if they are not on the premises. DC is tight enough on affordable housing; we don't need more apartments off the market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a good bill. It allows owners a full 2 weeks of rental if they are not on the premises. DC is tight enough on affordable housing; we don't need more apartments off the market.

Fourteen days a year? Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good bill. It allows owners a full 2 weeks of rental if they are not on the premises. DC is tight enough on affordable housing; we don't need more apartments off the market.

Fourteen days a year? Why?

two weeks is insanely restrictive. I go on holiday for a month and DC is telling me I can't rent my own home out. Wtf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good bill. It allows owners a full 2 weeks of rental if they are not on the premises. DC is tight enough on affordable housing; we don't need more apartments off the market.

Fourteen days a year? Why?

two weeks is insanely restrictive. I go on holiday for a month and DC is telling me I can't rent my own home out. Wtf

Sounds like you can't really afford your vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good bill. It allows owners a full 2 weeks of rental if they are not on the premises. DC is tight enough on affordable housing; we don't need more apartments off the market.

Fourteen days a year? Why?

two weeks is insanely restrictive. I go on holiday for a month and DC is telling me I can't rent my own home out. Wtf

Sounds like you can't really afford your vacation.

you are right. I'm retired. Bought a 2BR row home in Logan when they were still affordable. Love to travel, but can't afford to as much as I would like. I get about $1,500 a week for my home on airbnb during peak season. Makes a big to my vacation budget. Never had any complaints from the neighbors. So explain to me why D.C. wants to ban that in the name of affordable housing.

[Anonymous]

ANC2B (Dupont Circle) also passed a resolution opposing McDuffie's bill tonight. Similar concerns to those from Mount Pleasant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is a good bill. It allows owners a full 2 weeks of rental if they are not on the premises. DC is tight enough on affordable housing; we don't need more apartments off the market.

Fourteen days a year? Why?

two weeks is insanely restrictive. I go on holiday for a month and DC is telling me I can't rent my own home out. Wtf

Sounds like you can't really afford your vacation.

you are right. I'm retired. Bought a 2BR row home in Logan when they were still affordable. Love to travel, but can't afford to as much as I would like. I get about $1,500 a week for my home on airbnb during peak season. Makes a big to my vacation budget. Never had any complaints from the neighbors. So explain to me why D.C. wants to ban that in the name of affordable housing.

I'm on your side!

[Anonymous]

This activity should be restricted by most people's mortgage covenants if they have mortgages underwritten/guaranteed by FHFA, i.e. "conventional" or "conforming" mortgages.

Probably a better tact for DC government to follow would be to require mortgage owners and/or services to enforce these covenants with some penalty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This activity should be restricted by most people's mortgage covenants if they have mortgages underwritten/guaranteed by FHFA, i.e. "conventional" or "conforming" mortgages.

Probably a better tact for DC government to follow would be to require mortgage owners and/or services to enforce these covenants with some penalty.

DC government doesn't need to get involved. It's a solution looking for a problem that just happens to enrich the big business hotel corporations and the interests of the 1%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ANC2B (Dupont Circle) also passed a resolution opposing McDuffie's bill tonight. Similar concerns to those from Mount Pleasant.

Here is the ANC2B resolution.
http://www.dupontcircleanc.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/ANC-2B-RESOLUTION-Short-Term-Rental-Regulation-and-Affordable-Housing-Protection-Act-of-2017-DC-COUNCIL-UPDATED.pdf