This petition urges Mayor Eric Garcetti, members of the LA City Council, City Attorney Mike Feuer, the Los Angeles Department of Housing and the Department of Building Safety to immediately ensure the enforcement of current zoning code regulations.

The illegal practice of short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods has become a problem throughout our City. It has reached crisis proportions In popular destination neighborhoods like Venice Beach and Silver Lake. Non-enforcement of zoning codes has fostered a cottage industry of developers, property managers and speculators that illegally convert entire apartments, rent-stabilized multi-unit properties and homes in residential neighborhoods into de facto hotels. Residential housing stock, including rent-controlled units, is disappearing at an alarming rate. Long-term residents are no longer able to find homes.

We ask that our neighborhoods be spared further disruption until the effects of this activity is studied and better understood.