The number of formal complaints related to illegal short-term rental activity in San Francisco has continued to drop, with a total of 231 complaints lodged in the first three quarters of the year, down nearly 50 percent versus 2017 and 55 percent fewer than the 516 lodged in the first three quarters of 2016.

The number of complaints peaked at over 200 in the second quarter of 2016 alone, the quarter in which San Francisco drafted a new short term rental law which was finally implemented last year