San Diego City Council will soon vote on the city’s short-term rental rules. Tell Councilmembers to protect responsible hosting.

Protect Hosts See What's at Stake

Hosts are San Diegans.
Not corporations.

Rozzi hosts short-term guests in her own San Diego home to help make ends meet in one of the most expensive cities in the country. The City Council’s next vote on short-term rentals could take that away — from her, and thousands of hosts like her.

Watch Rozzi’s story

80%

Of hosts are everyday San Diegans, not out-of-state corporations. They are locals, many who rely on the extra income to make ends meet.

0

Homes would be built if hosting is restricted. Cutting short-term rental permits or increasing costs doesn’t add a single unit of long-term, affordable housing back to the market.

$50M+

In city tax revenue every year, funding police, fire, parks, libraries, and other core city services. All paid for by hosts and visitors.

Hosts are your neighbors, hear their stories.

Meet Real Hosts

Rozzi is the first San Diegan to share her story. There are thousands more like her. As more San Diego hosts share their stories, they’ll join her here.

  • If the city took away my ability to host, it wouldn’t just affect me and my family. It would impact a lot of small businesses that rely on my guest’s spending.

    Rozzi

    San Diego host · She rents a room to help cover the cost of living in the city she grew up in.

  • My older son is in the military and stationed in San Diego. If we lost the ability to host, I couldn’t afford to live here in San Diego.

    Iveth

    San Diego native and host with 2 kids and another baby on the way.

The City adopted strict rules a few years ago and cut short-term rentals in half through permitting, caps, and enforcement.

The rules are working and the majority of hosts are responsible residents. More restrictions would:

  • Punishes locals: Hosts are regular San Diegans: retirees, teachers, and military families, who rely on hosting to help make ends meet. Most short-term rentals are a single property run by a local homeowner, not an out-of-state investment firm.
  • Puts funding for city services at risk: Beyond the millions in guest spending at local small businesses, short-term rentals generate over $50 million a year in city tax revenue, helping fund police, fire, parks, and libraries.
  • Fewer visitors, fewer jobs: When short-term rentals are restricted, the neighborhoods and small businesses around them lose out on guest spending, often in areas with no hotels at all.
  • Doesn’t create housing: Cutting permits or increasing costs doesn’t add a single home to San Diego’s long-term housing supply.

We support effective solutions

San Diegans need policies that lower costs, not increase them.

Instead of more red tape that hurts responsible hosts, City Council should:

  • Target enforcement on bad actors: Enforce the rules and punish those who break them. Don’t punish responsible hosts like Rozzi who are trying to make it in San Diego.
  • Stop making San Diego more expensive: Stop raising fees and taxes that hit families already stretched thin.
  • Focus on accountability first: Measure results, audit existing funds, and prioritize what’s actually effective before adding more rules.
  • Deliver real housing solutions: Streamline permits and speed up housing that’s already been planned and approved.
Join the movement

Tell the City Council: protect responsible hosts.

San Diegans from across the city are asking the Council for one thing: don’t take away their ability to host. Add your name before the next hearing.

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