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A U.S. District Court judge has issued a summary judgement granting the Hawaii Legal Short-Term Rental Alliance a permanent injunction that carves existing home rental owners out of a provision in a city law that sought to increase the minimum rental period for residential properties on Oahu to 90 days from 30 days.
The city has sent 20 delinquent vacation rental accounts to its new collection agency, Aargon Agency Inc., as part of efforts that began two weeks ago to ramp up enforcement against illegal vacation rentals on Oahu.
Amid a housing crisis, Oahu homeowners are split over a new ordinance cracking down on short-term rentals.
Organizations who championed the 90-day minimum rental period say a judge’s decision to block the new rule from taking effect is detrimental.
The Hawaiian island of O'ahu is increasing the minimum stay in short-term rentals in residential areas from 30 to 90 days.