{"id":400312,"date":"2025-11-24T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400312\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T01:45:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:45:20","slug":"pass-this-small-but-valuable-tweak-to-nycs-draconian-airbnb-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/400312\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass this small but valuable tweak to NYC’s draconian Airbnb ban"},"content":{"rendered":"

For once, the City Council is on the verge of doing something sane: Relaxing the insane ban on Airbnb<\/a> in one- and two-family owner-occupied homes.<\/p>\n

Such short-term rentals pose no threat to hotels, nor to the housing supply: Such houses barely exist in the prime tourist areas; this would mainly just let folks in more remote stretches of the city make a few bucks hosting guests who are, for example, attending a wedding in Staten Island.<\/p>\n

The commonsense measure does three things: Allow New Yorkers to share homes while away; increase the guest limit from two to four, and permit internal door locks to provide privacy for guests and hosts.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

In \u201chotel desert\u201d communities outside Manhattan<\/a>, Airbnb rentals would be a godsend \u2014 and more than likely increase visitor spending and so boost embattled outer borough small businesses.<\/p>\n

Even Christian Klossner, the city bureaucrat who testified against the bill<\/a> at last week\u2019s council hearing, had to admit the anti-Airbnb Local Law 18 hasn\u2019t eased the housing shortage because it was never designed to lower rents.<\/p>\n

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Klossner plainly just want to fend off any threat <\/a>to the onerous short-term-rental-registration system and roust enforcement mechanism \u2014 that is, his power base at the city Office of Special Enforcement.<\/p>\n

Kudos to the council members daring to stand up to the relentless hotel unions by supporting this mild tweak to the Airbnb ban.<\/p>\n

The bill would still leave the city with the world\u2019s toughest anti-short-term-rental regime<\/a>; the council should rush it through for Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 signature to offer a small year-end gift to to beleaguered homeowners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For once, the City Council is on the verge of doing something sane: Relaxing the insane ban on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":400313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[8070,852,17053,5229,5310,4691,5289,17054,7065,46954,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-400312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adrienne-adams","tag-affordable-housing","tag-airbnb","tag-america","tag-city-council","tag-editorial","tag-eric-adams","tag-hotels","tag-housing","tag-htc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-opinion","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115602150070494243","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}