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A New York judge on Tuesday dismissed Airbnb's lawsuit against New York City over legislation it called a "de facto ban" against short-term rentals on Tuesday. Justice Arlene Bluth of a state ...
A city official cited thousands of illegal short-term rentals when defending the new rules in court, noting 43,000 on just Airbnb in 2018. Lawsuits filed by Airbnb and 3 hosts over NYC's short ...
Airbnb, citing data from Apartment List, said vacancy rates for apartments in New York City have remained virtually unchanged at 3.4% since the law took effect. The company also said the cost of ...
The City Council passed a bill that would require Airbnb to report the names and addresses of its hosts to the city’s Office of Special Enforcement; failure to comply could be punishable by ...
Airbnb contested one such law in New York. [222] [223] However, in May 2019, Airbnb agreed to turn over some anonymized information for approximately 17,000 listings so that the city could pursue illegal rentals. [224] Similar cases were settled in Boston and Miami. [225]
Theo Yedinsky, vice president of public policy at Airbnb, also has reservations, telling BI that he thinks NYC's focus on short-term rentals is misguided. "I don't think Local Law 18 should have ...
Cox, an Australian-American community activist who moved to Brooklyn in 2008, [2] first scraped information from the Airbnb website in 2014 and compared it to a public data release from the company in December 2015 for New York City. Working with a Canadian, Tom Slee, he found the company had removed over 1000 listings that violated New York's ...
Airbnb estimated there were nearly 15,000 listings across NYC last month. But, according to the New York Times, the city had received just 3,250 or so registration applications as of Aug. 28. Of ...