As the Adams administration prepares to implement With a law more strictly regulating short-term rentals in New York, Airbnb and hosts who use the platform are making a last-ditch push to get city officials to change course.
The mayor’s special enforcement office will hold a hearing on Monday on proposed rules to enforce the law, which was passed by city council in late 2021. The measure requires short-term rental hosts to register with the city and bans ad platforms like Airbnb. process transactions for a host that is not registered.
To register, hosts must provide information such as their home address, the full legal names of everyone residing there, and a diagram of their home that identifies things like fire exits in the building and parts that will be used for the short term. -term rental. They must also prove that they are the permanent occupant of the unit through documents such as bank statements and utility bills.
Christian Klossner, Executive Director of OSE, said last month the rules “clarify short-term rental laws and establish a simple process for hosts to obtain registration for their legal rentals.” State law prohibits rentals of less than 30 days when a host is not present. City officials, backed by the politically influential Hospitality Workers Union, have argued that short-term rentals are taking homes out of New York’s tight rental market and have been abused by operators who have used the flats -forms to manage illegal hotels.
Airbnb said the latest measure “Will create a draconian and unenforceable registration system that will prevent legal and responsible hosts from listing their homes at a time when families in New York are facing the rising cost of living.” He has long envisioned the platform as a way for people living in an expensive city to help make ends meet.
The proposed rules further detail a process for owners to add their properties to a “prohibited building list”, which would prevent residents from registering as a host. The New York Real Estate Board praised the rules and said in testimony that the measure will help ensure that owners or managers are not fined for short-term activities they do not not allow.
Airbnb and its hosts, meanwhile, have raised concerns that the registration process is too onerous and would require hosts to disclose private information on a public city website. One host, Mike Harp of Bed-Stuy, said in online comments that the rules amounted to “a major excess of the government controlling how I use the house I own and pay taxes on.”
The rules, which are due to go into effect in January, provide for fines of up to $5,000 for hosts who fail to comply.
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