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A dated tracker of city short-term rental rules this site has checked. Status badges say proposed, adopted, or in effect. Nothing here is legal advice, and a platform policy change is not a city vote.
Updated October 24, 2026
Three cities are on this page because their 2026 files were checked against city sources on October 23, 2026. Santa Barbara has a council meeting set for October 27 and has not adopted the ordinance described below. Hoboken has a 60-night cap in an October 21 packet and a November 4 meeting whose agenda was not posted at that check. New Haven's ordinance OR-2026-0039 is still proposed.
The three below. Each row is a status, not a prediction. Adopted and in-effect stay off this table until a city source says the vote happened and the text is in force. Last verified is October 23, 2026 for every row.
| City | Status | Key rule in the file that was checked | Next date | Primary source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara, California | Proposed | Council recommendation: one license per owner, and one short-term rental on a multi-unit parcel. Current inland rules still treat short-term rentals as hotels and prohibit them in single-unit and two-unit zones. | October 27, 2026, 2:00 PM council meeting. Not adopted as of the October 23 check. | Recommendation page, October 27 agenda | October 23, 2026 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey | Proposed | October 21 packet, Chapter 164: a 60-night annual cap. The person offering the unit must be the owner. No one-permit-per-owner cap was in that text. | November 4, 2026, 7:00 PM meeting is listed. Agenda was not posted as of about 7:40 AM ET on October 23. | October 21 packet, November 4 meeting page | October 23, 2026 |
| New Haven, Connecticut | Proposed | Draft OR-2026-0039 would ban vacation rentals of 30 days or less except licensed home-sharing. One home-share per host. One license per dwelling unit. Draft fine of $250 for each day. Draft effective date March 31, 2027. No license fee dollar amount in the ordinance. | Legislation Committee favorable report on October 22, 2026. A Board of Alders date was not on the calendar that was checked. | Legistar file | October 23, 2026 |
ProposedLast verified October 23, 2026
It does not require anything new yet. The October 27, 2026 regular City Council agenda says the meeting begins at 2:00 PM in the Council Chambers at City Hall. That meeting had not happened when these sources were checked, so this page does not call the ordinance adopted.
The council recommendation pagesays the city would "limit licenses city-wide to one per owner, and limit the number of STRs on a multi-unit parcel to a single STR." That is a recommendation, not the enrolled ordinance.
Current inland rules, from the city STROD page, still treat short-term rentals as hotels. They are prohibited in single-unit and two-unit residential zones, including the R-S and R-2 zones under Title 30 (Inland). The same page describes the new program as aimed at areas generally zoned for hotels, commercial uses, and multi-residential buildings, plus homeshares.
A September 15, 2026 inland draft says an STR or homeshare is not allowed in a High Fire Hazard Area, including the Coastal, Coastal Interior, Foothill, and Extreme Foothill zones named in that draft. The final October 27 text was not the file that was checked. Treat the fire-zone line as draft language until the adopted ordinance is read.
That draft includes commercial and manufacturing tables. A residential-zone table for the new ordinance was not in the file, so this page does not say whether R-S and R-2 stay closed under the new text. The city also published an ArcGIS map of proposed license and homeshare areas. The layers were not inspected, so the map is linked and not described.
ProposedLast verified October 23, 2026
They are not new law yet. The November 4, 2026 City Council regular meeting is listed for 7:00 PM. As of about 7:40 AM ET on October 23, that meeting page had no agenda or packet link.
The October 21, 2026 packet includes Chapter 164. That chapter text includes a 60-night annual cap. It also says the person offering a dwelling unit for short-term rental use must be the owner, which leaves out tenant-hosted stays. Eligibility language in the same chapter covers a principal residence in the association for condo, HOA, and co-op units, and owner-occupied buildings of two to four units.
A search of that Chapter 164 text did not find a one-permit-per-owner cap. Do not plan around an owner cap Hoboken's packet does not contain.
ProposedLast verified October 23, 2026
No. Ordinance OR-2026-0039 is still proposed. Legistar listed the status as First Reading. The Board of Alders referred it on October 5, 2026. On October 22, 2026 the Legislation Committee issued a favorable report. The action record does not show a mover, seconder, or vote tally. A date for the full Board of Alders was not on the calendar that was checked.
The October 22, 2026 committee minutesput the hearing at 6:30 PM, with Hon. Richard Furlow as chair. The minutes say approximately 90 people testified. The draft would prohibit vacation rentals of 30 consecutive days or less, with licensed home-sharing as the exception. Quoted draft limits: "No host may be the host for more than one home-share." And: "No more than one license shall be issued for any Dwelling Unit at a time." The draft fine is $250 for each day. The effective date written in the draft, and restated in the minutes, is March 31, 2027.
The draft points the application fee at section 17-201 of the city code and does not print a dollar amount. This page did not check what section 17-201 currently charges. The minutes extract that was read ends during testimony and does not include an item vote tally. The Legistar action itself is the favorable report.
Only the New Haven draft spells out a home-share exception in the files checked for this page. That draft would still require a city home-sharing license, and it would still limit a host to one home-share and a dwelling unit to one license. It does not say an unlicensed room rental is allowed.
Santa Barbara's STROD page describes homeshares as part of the program the council recommended. It does not, in the pages checked, say a room in your own home is already licensed. Hoboken's packet requires the owner to be the person offering the unit, and it sets eligibility for condos, HOAs, co-ops, and owner-occupied two-to-four unit buildings. None of the three cities should be read as a blanket yes for a spare room.
Use the city's own files, in this order:
This is not legal advice. A council packet can change before the vote, and a draft effective date is not the day a rule starts.
Not as a general rule this page can state. The New Haven draft includes platform verification. That is one city's draft, not evidence that Airbnb enforces local law everywhere. For what the platform itself changed, read Airbnb's own house rules changes for Nov 20, what hosts can still ask of guests after Nov 20, and what platform dependence costs hosts.
When a tracked city votes, or when a checked file was wrong. The changelog is the record. Sources were last checked October 23, 2026. The page was published October 24, 2026, before Santa Barbara's October 27 meeting and before Hoboken's November 4 agenda was due to appear.
No. This page tracks public city documents. Check the city code, the council agenda, and a lawyer before you change a listing.
Not yet. Proposed ordinance OR-2026-0039 would prohibit vacation rentals of 30 consecutive days or less, with licensed home-sharing as the exception in the draft. As of October 22, 2026 the Legislation Committee had sent a favorable report to the Board of Alders. It was still a first reading, not an adopted law.
The draft text says no host may be the host for more than one home-share, and no more than one license shall be issued for any dwelling unit at a time. It does not state a license fee dollar amount.
Not as of October 23, 2026. The regular City Council meeting on October 27, 2026 starts at 2:00 PM. A city recommendation page says licenses would be limited to one per owner, and to one short-term rental on a multi-unit parcel. That recommendation is not the same thing as an adopted ordinance.
The October 21, 2026 City Council packet, Chapter 164, includes a 60-night annual cap. As of about 7:40 AM ET on October 23, the November 4, 2026 agenda was not posted. This page treats the cap as proposed. The packet that was checked does not limit owners to one permit.
Read the municipal code, the council agenda, and the city's short-term rental permit page. This hub links the primary source for each city it tracks and shows the date that source was last checked.
This page does not claim that Airbnb enforces city law in general. The New Haven draft includes platform verification. That line is draft text for one city, not a rule for every listing.
Airbnb can change a house rule without a council vote. These pieces stay on that side of the line. Two of them are also listed on the Guests hub.
The policy update email ran four paragraphs. The fifth line changed how cancellations worked for every reservation already sitting on a host's calendar.
March 11, 2026
7 min
On Oct 20, 2026, Airbnb told hosts it is rewriting how house rules work. If your checkout list asks guests to wash dishes, strip beds or haul the trash out, you have about a month to fix it.
October 21, 2026
15 min
For reservations booked on or after November 20, 2026, Airbnb's help page limits guest contracts, ID copies, required apps, and background checks. Here is what hosts can still do, quoted from the help pages.
October 22, 2026
16 min