March 14, 2018 -- Santa Monica can continue enforcing its "home-sharing" law after a U.S. District Court last week denied a motion by AirBnB and HomeAway for a preliminary injunction.

The Court's ruling Friday in the the Central District of California held that the platforms are "not likely to prevail on their claims that the City’s ordinance is unlawful" under the federal Communications Decency Act (“CDA”), the First Amendment and the California Coastal Act, City officials said.

“In the midst of a statewide housing crisis, (the) decision affirms that the City of Santa Monica can take reasonable steps to protect residential units from conversion into de facto hotels," City Attorney Lane Dilg said in a statement.

The decision still allows individuals to "share their homes with guests for compensation in authorized circumstances,” Dilg said. “We applaud this important ruling.”

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