"At meetings with housing advocates, labor unions, and short-term rental companies, city staff presented the rough plan: short-term rentals would be legalized for the first time in Oakland's history, but strictly limited in how they could operate. Hosts could list their own residences on a rental platform, but not other properties they owned. And they could only rent their home for up to 90 nights each year."
"After the 2023 meetings, a city spokesperson said Oakland would hold a public workshop in early 2024, ahead of presenting the new regulations to the City Council that spring or summer for approval. But none of that ended up happening. The timeline on a city webpage about the new proposed rules has been quietly updated, now placing the council hearings in the spring of 2026. That's after years of either silence or false starts."
Oakland proposed legalizing and tightly restricting short-term rentals, allowing hosts to list only their primary residences and capping rentals at 90 nights per year. City staff met with housing advocates, labor unions, and rental companies and initially scheduled public engagement and council consideration for 2024. The public workshop and council hearings were not held, and an updated city timeline now pushes hearings to spring 2026. Regulation efforts date to a 2016 City Council mandate driven by concerns that short-term rentals removed housing from local markets, raised prices, and created neighborhood quality-of-life and safety issues while hosts sought income and hotels closed.
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