Lane: All San Diego short-term rental lottery applicants received permits
Jamie Lane · The Mistakes with Short-Term Rentals Costing You $1000s · Sep 1, 2026 · at 14:06
Jamie Lane, Chief Economist at AirDNA, cites the city of San Diego's regulatory framework as an example of municipal permitting caps.
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“San Diego did that, where they said we're okay with one percent of our housing stock being allocated towards short terminals. They had a lottery for hosts to then get one of those permits and they held this lottery and there wasn't even the, and everyone got a permit because I knew it was much less than one percent of the homes that wanted to rent out as a short-term rental.”
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