Santa Ana property owners get the shaft as short term rentals get banned by the City Council

The Santa Ana City Council passed a rent control ordinance back in 2021 and then forced landlords to enter all their data in a rent registry in 2023. This week the Santa Ana City Council also banned short-term rentals, such as those popularized by the app Airbnb.
At the April 2, 2024 meeting, the Santa Ana City Council adopted an urgency ordinance and conducted a first reading of a standard ordinance to amend the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC) to add Article XXI to Chapter 8 of the SAMC, thereb