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Posted on 03/16/2026 4:09:20 AM PDT by Libloather
Airbnb has issued a doomsday letter to Los Angeles ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup as prices skyrocket and renters are frustrated by red tape.
The short-term renting giant demanded the city end rules restricting second homeowners in the region from letting them out as vacation homes during the tournament.
The move, the note claims, would lead to an explosion in properties available for visitors and add over $100 million in taxes to the local government.
Prices have gone nuclear across Los Angeles and San Francisco, the two World Cup tournament locations in California.
A Deloitte study found in the City of Angels a host can make up to $5,100 for the week, with dozens across the city currently listed in the thousands.
The letter sent to LA City Council, exclusively obtained by the California Post, was backed by a coalition of businesses including Airbnb and called for the Vacation Rental Revenue Plan to be actioned.
Supporters say it will unleash thousands of new rooms across the city during the World Cup, as well as bring $110 million a year in cash.
They urged lawmakers to move quickly on the proposal because they say it risks blowing a major economic opportunity if it does not go ahead.
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Anyone who does anything in the Karen Bass Los Angeles gets what they deserve.
LA and the world cup will make the Atlanta Olympics fiasco (if you were here like us, you’d know) look like genius.
That sounds great for the owners. I would certainly like to have someone offer me a year's pay to rent my house for a week. (We have friends who would let us camp in their yard ;).
So what's the problem?
I experienced the opposite - The Ted Turner Games in Seattle in 1990 that were canceled. Worst summer season ever, because so many reservations were cancelled after the games didn’t happen. Easy to get into restaurants, though,,,,,
My parents have been part of the AAU for decades....gets free or nearly free Olympic tickets, esp. Equestrian sports and shooting sprots. Anyways, this will be the first Olympics that someone in our family will not attend since 1980. My first one was in LA in 1984.
If LA can’t figure out how to handle their bums, put out fires or rebuild a subdivision of 100’s of homes, how will it find and prosecute a few thousand homeowners renting out their extra rooms under the table?
$5100 for a week? That is not a bad price if the property is a quality one.
Sundance brings double that in Park City. During ski season $1K/night for higher end hotel rooms is a low number.
Big time.
Hey Airbnb - Doomsday already came and went for Los Angeles. They are living in the Hell that comes after Doomsday and just don’t realize it yet. If Airbnb is smart, they will leave too.
The World Cup is being played at multiple venues in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Of 114 matches, 14 are scheduled to be played in LA or San Francisco.
The simple solution would be to switch venues. Do the fans a favor and just don’t play any games in California at all.
But FIFA won’t do that because FIFA is basically owned by the television people, and tv and streaming are mostly owned by Big Tech. Tv and Big Tech are only interested in advertising revenue. FIFA would play games in hell if the devil would toss enough money into advertising.
They’re kinda, sorta already doing that by playing games in California anyhow.
Any city that can host a D1 college football game can host a World Cup game. There are lots of good choices. I’d be inclined against putting very many games in the South because soccer is a running game with continuous play, not a stop motion game where the 300 pounders can waddle over to the oxygen tent whenever they break a sweat, in a game with six minutes of actual play surrounded by two hours of commercials. The World Cup will be played in June and July. I’d minimize sweatbox games.
Heck, we’ve got enough high school football stadiums here in Texas for them to host every game.
At the last World Cup, average attendance across all games was over 50,000 people. I know you have some big high school football stadiums in Texas, but ....
They also only want to play in cities that appeal to the wealthy Eurotrash. Never forget what this event is about. $$$.
For most of these people, the game is secondary. It’s about shopping sprees for their wives and kids.
That is true. As long as we remember that it’s not just EUROtrash; the trash is thoroughly international in the global game, and it includes especially the FIFA bigwigs and tv executives, many of whom don’t care at all about soccer and just want to party with the swells.
We recently rented an AirBNB in San Francisco (my grandkids are there) - VERY expensive for such a small place -; and the “cleaning fee” was $300, even though we left the place spotless and there wasn’t a lot to clean.
The charge for cleaning an entire home is $200 in my area for a 1600 sq.ft. home.
Hotels are starting to look better and better...
The visitors can just stay for free by camping out in tents on the sidewalks.
When Airbnb was young it was great. I used them for nearly three years straight living in Europe. Then, when corporations started buying up every scrap of property and converting them to airbnbs the ridiculous fees started. 3 r4 5 hundred to clean a studio apartment after a 2 day stay? No thanks.
My brother and his family live at the Oregon coast. Every house within 2 blocks of the beach is owned by the same two Airbnb companies. And Oregon beaches are not sunny warm sunbathing spots with cool little beach towns. Like with most internet things, they started great, and ended up crappy. (YouTube, Google, EBay.”
If FIA is so damned important then people will pay.
I have no sympathy for the short-term rental market.
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