There’s such a “stir on social media” about the latest renditions of maps that show the locations of short-term vacation rentals in San Diego that the private site that posts them, niceneighbor.org , is on the verge of crashing.
Jay Goldberg has been analyzing the city of San Diego’s short-term rental locations for a year and a half. He posts maps on his website: niceneighbors.org.
“The concentration is surprising,” said Goldberg. “You’re talking about 6.2 percent of all dwelling units in Ocean Beach currently licensed as short-term rentals.”
Obviously, vacation rentals are taking away housing options for OB residents and is “It’s feeding into the housing crisis, both in terms of supply of housing available and also the price of housing,” Goldberg said.
Neighborhood activists in OB, Pacific Beach and Mission Beach have known all of this for years and members of the OB Planning Board have taken the lead in efforts to bring everyone’s attention to this travesty.
Of particular concern for activists is the loophole in the STVR law that allows one investor to obtain even up to 100 licenses as long as they use other people’s names. Remember slumlord king Mickie Mills?
The city of San Diego said in a statement there are more than 8,600 short-term rental licenses citywide.
The city’s Community and Neighborhood Services Committee is set to review the state of the short-term rental ordinance in July.
We have housing but let STVRs proliferate and now we don’t have enough housing. So we build more houses, which get sucked up by STVRs and now we don’t have enough housing. So we build more houses, which get sucked up by STVRs and now we don’t have enough housing. So we build more houses, which get sucked up by STVRs and now we don’t have enough housing.
Reminds me of this commercial from the 90’s https://youtu.be/XGAVTwhsyOs?si=zDZO1xFb0Ip6QTXp
Our city is a mess
As a white boomer prop-13 subsidized landlord who rents crappy tear downs for thousands a month, I am outraged that people are doing this on a week to week or short term basis.
Never change OB. Keep it gritty. Keep it shitty. Keep it really expensive.
Well said Boomer McMillions. Hard to feel bad for a bunch of subsidized homeowners crying over vacationers having a good time. They always want to shift the focus away from building more housing and towards red herrings like STVRs.
We should just call these guys the STVR police
Amazing narrow view and lack of compassion toward the community. Nice job.
I have a great deal of compassion for the community! I live in it!
If it weren’t for Prop 13 keeping taxes on my house and my rental properties too low to pay for any public services I’d have to move out so people who could support the community could move in!
You realize he’s joking right? He’s making a mockery of your position on this.
I as a single women putting 2 kids thru college can tell you that my 2 STVR’s(pacific beach & La jolla), have saved me and afforded me a lifestyle that would be impossible otherwise! I had a great life in Bird Rock until I was dumped by my ex who was named Richard, but known to all with the appropriate name “Dick”, Dick wanted out the marriage for a younger big ti**ed golf instructor, I agreed, I said I would walk away with the kids, 50/50 custody for a million, I bought my 2 rental bungalows in PB and LJ, and a 3 bedroom condo me me and the girls in UTC, and planned to to live off rental income as I had no money left, after buying the properties, I have since over the years made in excess of $3,000,000 in rental STVR income, sold my UTC condo and currently live in Bird Rock in a home I have paid off, my rental income for my 2 properties last year was $175,000, this year 2024 in will be over $200,000, my STVR properties have helped my to survive, I am not alone, please do not knock them!!! Oh, whatever happened to Tit’s? you wonder, after the cruises,fancy dinners, cars, she took him to the cleaners, no tears please he ison wife #4 now,
So much to unpack here.
If I as a man referred to a woman as “Tits,” would that be acceptable? I think not, but apparently you as a very bitter woman can do so without any regrets or remorse, and perhaps not any push back from others.
But what I really want to talk about is the STVRs. It’s wonderful for you that you can make this much money, but you have to realize that it comes with a price for the rest of us. Every whole unit STVR deprives an individual or a family of a potential place to live. In my community, with 6% of housing units as STVRs, that means rising rents, rising sale prices and fewer opportunities for residents. This can only be bad for communities and for residents. I firmly believe that some portion of the unsheltered population results from being priced out of housing by the proliferation of profiteers such as yourself.
I hope that at some point you may be able to come to terms with your anger and bitterness. The kind of feelings you express in your post can only harm your well being. I mean that sincerely as a person who wants you to thrive.
Between you and your 2 inheritors, you can own 3 vacation rentals under the changes Jay is asking for. Just not an entire apartment building, or 100 units.
Airbnb likes to prop up small time hosts making the ends meet, as the face of their operation. But most of their income is actually from these corporations who don’t live here, run many STRs and convert entire buildings, evicting long term tenants en masse.
Airbnb is using you as a prop. You should support these restrictions, it would actually help your bottom line.
STVR can make a lot of money I did that to a rental house I own When things were great they were really great. But when they weren’t they were very bad. I eventually went back to long term rental. Made a whole lot less money but it was easy. Rent it out collect deposit and the monthly rent. and generally forget about it, with the STVR it was cleaned every few days whenever it turned, fix what was broken and know the renters were going to have a party when they were there. As more units entered the market rental became harder and of course profit less. My renter now has been there 3 or 4 years and we are friends. It’s easy we get along. If you can deal with the short term problems that will happen go for it.
Wendy,
What kind of impact do your STR customer guests have on the lifestyles of the long term neighbors?
In what ways have your profitable STRs added positive social, political, and economic value to the neighborhoods and lives of the neighbors? In what ways have your STRs protected or improved the long term residents’ personal and public quality of life?
How many individual guests have stayed at your STRs over the years?
Do you believe that local, state, and federal taxpayers are in anyway subsidizing your STR business?
Yo prologue what impact do you have on the lifestyles of YOUR neighbors? In wat ways have your profitable property values and low tax rates added positive social, political, and economic value to the neighborhoods and lives of the neighbors? In what ways have you protected or improved the long term residents’ personal and public quality of life?
How many individual guests have stayed at your home over the years? Do you believe that local, state, and federal taxpayers are in any way subsidizing your property tax basis?
I’m sorry, Rheem, but your post makes no real sense whatsoever. First, in what way are local, state, and federal taxpayers subsidizing my property tax basis? I grant you that Prop 13, which I opposed, provides breaks for long term owners, and that there is a tax deduction for mortgage interest, but my tax basis is set by the Assessor’s office. There is no subsidy at any level, particularly now that the changes in the tax code proposed by the Orange Guy removed the state and local tax (SALT) tax deduction for almost all homeowners. And, for most of us, the mortgage interest deduction doesn’t come into play as it requires itemization, while most taxpayers are better off taking the standard deduction.
U.S. housing policy had always been based upon the notion of home ownership as the keystone to stable, healthy and viable communities. This was codified in the housing act of 1947 which set the goal of a decent, safe and sanitary home for all in America.
Homeowners and permanent residents are invested in their communities in ways that vacationers are not. They participate in neighborhood, civic and philanthropic organizations and activities. They invest in improvements to their properties, and in the areas around them. Tourists do none of these things. And let us not forget that a tourist economy is an economy based on low paying service industry jobs.
Let’s leave the value of property out of the discussion. Yes, homes have increased in value over the years, but whose fault is that? The homeowner? BTW, I once looked at the increased value of my home over the years that I have lived here and determined that is is not the gateway to inter-generational wealth that so many people claim. If you account for upkeep and maintenance, investing in the stock market would have given me greater returns. Of course, I realize that this conflicts with the greedy boomer homeowners narrative.
Hi Wendy,
It’s Kevin & Amy, we live across the the street from your STVR in La Jolla, you have made our life a living hell, over Memorial Day weekend, a weekend we were looking forward to enjoying peacefully in our home, you had 6 college age kid’s in your STVR who went on a 3 day bender, we are happy you made by our understanding a lot of money that 3 day weekend, you ruined our weekend, and other neighbor’s too, please consider selling the home to a nice family, you would make million’s and headaches would be gone for you, you complain of the problem’s you have with the home, please sell it, Amy said she saw you in your new Audi RS Q8 Spyder, so glad, life is good for you.
Uuuugh, Kevin seriously, cheap home depot red bark for a front yard, don’t throw stones.