Airbnb is facing two setbacks to its business in its hometown of San Francisco, reported the Verge.
On one hand, the city’s Board of Supervisors passed a resolution restricting the ability of unregistered Airbnb hosts to offer their homes (apartments or rooms) for a maximum of 60-days per year. However, in an effort to encourage host registration with the city agency, the Board of Supervisors allowed registered hosts to rent their entire home through Airbnb year-round, while renting individual rooms for up to 90-days per year.
Meanwhile, Airbnb seems to have succumbed to the city of San Francisco’s demand to hand over all of its hosts information, including names, addresses and guests names in order to help the city enforce a law requiring hosts to register their short-term rentals with a city agency.
Critics of Airbnb accuse the space-sharing website of exacerbating the city’s housing crisis by reducing the number of units available for longer-term rentals in favor of less-restrictive short-term ones.