On September 5, 2025, the City of Beverly Hills enacted a new ordinance that prohibits all short-term rentals citywide, requiring every residential lease to be at least 12 months before eligibility for any month-to-month arrangement. This restriction affects homeowners, property managers, hosts, and local businesses who rely on short-term and flexible rental opportunities. It also imposes fines for renting or advertising short-term stays, turning everyday hosting into a code enforcement issue.

The Beverly Hills Rental Alliance (BHRA) is an independent coalition of property owners, hosts, managers, and renters who believe that short-term and mid-term rental options are an important part of our community’s economic diversity, visitor appeal, and property rights. We are organizing to ensure fair, balanced, and common-sense rental policy that protects neighborhoods and supports local property stakeholders.

Beverly Hills has long been home to residents who work in the entertainment industry, many of whom are bi-coastal, frequently on location, or maintain secondary residences due to the demands of their careers. These residents rely on the ability to use their homes when they are in Beverly Hills and rent them out responsibly when they are traveling, filming, or working in other cities.

Short-term rentals have also played a critical role in providing temporary housing for traveling nurses and medical residents who rotate through Los Angeles–area hospitals and clinics for limited-duration assignments. These essential workers require safe, furnished, flexible housing close to their workplaces, something traditional yearlong leases and hotels rarely provide.

Beverly Hills is not only a destination for entertainment and business travelers, but also a global hub for advanced medical care — with top facilities like Cedars-Sinai Medical Center nearby and a high concentration of private specialty clinics and treatment centers. Patients travel from around the world to Beverly Hills for plastic and reconstructive surgery, neurological care, sinus reconstruction, lipedema treatment, rehabilitation programs, and other highly specialized medical services.

For many of these patients, an extended hotel stay for weeks at a time is neither practical nor affordable. Short-term and mid-term rental options provide safe, comfortable, and cost-effective housing close to medical facilities, enabling patients and caregivers to remain in the area throughout the course of treatment and recovery. Without these flexible rental options, many individuals would face significant barriers to accessing the care they need, particularly when recovery periods extend beyond a typical hotel booking. This demonstrates how short-term rental accommodations contribute to the local healthcare ecosystem, supporting not only tourism and industry workers but also a significant and growing number of medical visitors whose stays are essential for successful health outcomes.

The new prohibition eliminates this flexibility. It prevents homeowners from:

• Offsetting housing costs during long stretches away for work

• Maintaining their Beverly Hills residence while still being able to earn necessary supplemental income

• Providing temporary housing to actors, writers, crew, traveling nurses, medical residents, and other professionals relocating to or working short-term in the Los Angeles area

   

These are long-time community members who contribute to the cultural and economic fabric of Beverly Hills.