LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles City Council voted on Jan. 19 to explore amending the city’s municipal code to suspend a property’s ability to be used as a short-term rental if any criminal activity occurred at the location while being rented. The city’s current ordinance, which was passed in 2018, limits home-sharing to primary residences and requires the hosts to register for a permit. It prohibits platforms such as Airbnb from processing bookings for listings that don’t have a city home-sharing registration number. The city council on Wednesday ordered the Department of City Planning, with assistance from the city attorney and the police department, to report on the feasibility of amending the provision to allow for the immediate suspension of the Los Angeles Home-Sharing Registration when criminal activity is found to have taken place at the rental. The motion, which passed 13–0 with Councilman Marqueece Harris-Dawson absent, was introduced by Councilwoman Nithya …