![]() ![]() “We have consistently worked with hosts and platforms to ensure they were aware of their requirements under the law.”Īccording to Airbnb, the new rule breaks two earlier settlements it reached with the city, including a 2016 agreement over restrictions prohibiting advertising of short-term rentals and a 2020 deal loosening a requirement that the company submit monthly reports detailing information about its transactions.Īirbnb has been fighting with the city for years over rules limiting short-term rentals. ![]() “The rules governing short-term rentals, codified in both city and state law, have been clear for years,” New York said, noting that rules were implemented by the mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement following the adoption of the law by the City Council. Read More: NYC Airbnb With $1 Million Fines Shows Why More Rules Are Coming Mayor Eric Adams’ administration is “committed to protecting safety and community livability for residents, preserving permanent housing stock, and ensuring our hospitality sector can continue to recover and thrive,” according to a statement from City Hall. “Taken together, these features of the registration scheme appear intended to drive the short-term rental trade out of New York City once and for all,” the company said. Local Law 18, which was passed in January 2022, “chills short-term rentals by requiring extensive and intrusive disclosures of personal information and forcing open-ended agreement to labyrinthine regulations scattered across a complex web of laws, codes, and regulations,” the company said in a complaint filed Thursday in state court in Manhattan.Īirbnb claims the law imposes “massive burdens” on booking services by forcing on them the responsibility to ensure hosts are registered and to provide transaction reports, under the threat of large civil penalties. sued New York seeking to block a municipal law set to go into effect next month that will require hosts to register for an operating license, saying it is a “de facto ban” against short-term rentals in the largest US city.
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