Unlawful short-term rentals in Los Angeles are not only a policy problem, they are a story local news continues to cover. Better Neighbors LA investigations have led NBC 4 and others to report on noisy illegal Airbnbs, rent-stabilized apartments listed for tourists, and the gap between the City's rules and how they are enforced. Watch the coverage below.
NBC 4 NEWS: BNLA’s 2022 Annual Report exposes deficiencies in LA’s enforcement of STR regulations.
Our 2022 Annual Report lays out where LA's short-term rental enforcement falls short, with the data behind it.
“City of LA Fails to Shut Down Noisy, Illegal Airbnbs”
A Better Neighbors investigation led NBC 4 to a first report on September 13, 2022 and this follow up segment aired on December 1, 2022
Better Neighbors LA original video
Airbnb and other short-term rental companies say they want to play by the rules. Our own video shows how hosts keep gaming the system anyway, and what it costs LA in lost housing and safety.
NBC 4 NEWS: “I-Team Reveals How Greedy Hosts in LA are Listing Rent-stabilized Apartments on Airbnb”
A Better Neighbors investigation led to the NBC 4 story that ran on September 13, 2022
NBC 4's I-Team, working from a Better Neighbors investigation, found landlords pulling rent-stabilized apartments off the market to list them as short-term rentals. September 13, 2022
"They're turning my building into a hotel."
A Venice resident watching a developer turn his apartment building into a hotel one unit at a time: 32 apartments, about 10 long-term neighbors left. A UNITE HERE Local 11 video.
Unite 11 video on Airbnb.
