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Ousted tenants sue after their former rent-controlled L.A. apartments are listed on Airbnb
Carrie Kirshman and Nina Giovannitti were close neighbors at their Spanish villa apartments in Fairfax, sharing keys, collecting each other's mail and tending to a communal garden in the backyard. Their rent-controlled building allowed them to enjoy below-market rents of less than $2,000 a month for their two-bedroom pads in the upscale neighborhood. That came to an end in late 2013 when the owners evicted them under the Ellis Act, a state law that allows...
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Now I don't agree with the way things went down, but in theory they could claim under the Ellis Act that they were getting out of the rental business and instead were transitioning into the hotel & tourism business using AirBnB to do so. Didn't California just try and pass a law that said that AirBnB was a hotel? I just wonder if that defense would not satisfy the terms of the act of them getting out of the home rental business.