LOS ANGELES—HomeAway, a leading short-term rental platform, is facing a lawsuit filed by Los Angeles City over its violation of the city’s home-sharing law by allowing unregistered hosts to post listings, officials announced on March 21. The city alleges HomeAway—which is a part of the Expedia Group and operates the popular rental platform Vrbo—for processing rental booking for unregistered hosts, with nearly 30 percent of its transactions in a month violating the city ordinance. “HomeAway’s alleged flagrant violations of City law must end now,” City Attorney Mike Feuer said in a March 21 statement. “When online platforms and hosts refuse to play by the rules, it allows them to compete unfairly with those who do, as well as depriving the City of much-needed revenue for basic services.” Los Angeles adopted an ordinance in 2018 to require all short-term rental hosts to register with the city and earn a city-issued registration …