This past Thursday, at the D.C. Zoning Commission hearing, adversaries Airbnb and the District’s hotel industry agreed on relaxing the zoning code in the meanwhile as the short-term rentals law is in the works to become enacted. Currently, of the estimated 9,000 short-term rentals operating in the area, 90 percent of them in residential areas are illegal because of the current zoning regulations that prohibit them. The new law will impose a 90 day maximum amount of days that a host will be able to rent out their short-term rental while away. The hotel industry, its unions and affordable housing activists fought to restrict the zoning codes of Airbnb due to its impact on the housing market, its effect on changing the character of a community and its competition with the hotel industry. The law “prevents investors and those with multiple properties from taking housing off the market,” Unite Here Local 25 political director Samuel Epps said. Additionally, it will ban large-scale investors as opposed to individual homeowners from using the platform.