Consider Directing the City Manager to Draft Policies with Regard to AirBnb and Related Temporary Lodging Activities in Residential Homes and Zoning Districts.  (Councilmember Daysog)
Directing the city managers draft policies with regard to Airbnb and related temporary lodging activities in residential homes and zoning districts. Okay. Thank you. I just want to. I'll be brief. I just wanted to also talk about the benefits of partnering with Airbnb. Effective July 1st, Oakland will be the city of Oakland. Airbnb will collect the collecting taxes on their Airbnb guest or host. Effective July 1st. It's Airbnb is growing. They're getting larger and larger. And. I believe that Alameda has a great opportunity. I think this is one of the first things that we would look at to increase tourism is to think of ourselves as partnering with Airbnb. Unlike many surrounding cities, Alameda has no bed and breakfast. Since we don't have luxury hotels, we don't have boutique hotels. So the Airbnb rentals are the closest thing that we would have to to bed and breakfast. Right now, Paris is one of the lot. Airbnb is becoming more popular in Paris, London, Cuba. And one of the other benefits of Airbnb is it addresses the sharing economy. And I'd like to talk a lot about that because tenants have a tremendous opportunity to negotiate with their landlords to say, okay, look, you're going to raise my rent and I would like to rent out my space or rent out my extra spare bedroom for some income to help offset the expenses and my other expenses. So Airbnb actually has an entire page to help tenants negotiate with their landlords. No, NOLA, this is a company that prepares legal forms and and helps small businesses. They also have tenant agreements, prepare tenant agreements to help tenants. So we have an opportunity to do something unique and different. And I think we can the rent review board could possibly use this as a tool, and I know that that's why not talking about when we view boards, but I just I've done a lot of research . I spent almost the whole weekend researching the benefits of Airbnb and I know this is going to come up again, but I'm really excited about partnering. Take a look at the city of Malibu, the Airbnb, the advertising, a promotion that they're doing for the city of Malibu. It's pretty incredible. Partnering with Airbnb means that they will do a lot of your advertising, so that's what it looks like to be partnering with it. And so you're getting all of this advertising and branding and it's pretty exciting. So if you get a chance to do that. And one last comment, Paris, they said according to their site, many of their hosts work in the creative industry and more than 40% are self-employed, freelance or part time. So this is an incredible way to increase their income and allow them to continue to be artists. So as you can see, I'm pretty excited about this one, too. Thank you. Any other comments on this item? All right then proceeding with Council Communications Member DE. I just want to say now I know that the item of the rent reforms will be coming back to us later this month. I just want to take a moment to say, you know, it's. It's it's sad when I know two families were one living next door to my good friend Kerry and another living next door to