![]() ![]() The report contends that Airbnb takes housing off the market for significant chunks of the year and impairs Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to create or preserve 20,000 affordable units a year for the next decade. It also found that more than one-third of Airbnb listings in New York City were considered commercial, meaning a property that is primarily dedicated to generating revenue through short-term rentals and not lived in by the host. The report found that 55 percent of the 51,000 or so Airbnb listings in New York City violated a state law that prohibits rental of a residential with three or more units for less than 30 days unless the permanent resident is present. The report, called “Short Changing New York City,” used 2015 Airbnb data and was commissioned by affordable housing advocates who had long been critics of Airbnb. ![]() ![]() Bedford-Stuyvesant, a historically African-American neighborhood in Brooklyn, has become one of the latest battlegrounds in the war between New York City and Airbnb.Ī study released last week showed that rents had risen fastest in the New York City neighborhoods where Airbnb, which lets users list their homes for short-term rentals, is the most popular - including gentrifying, predominately minority neighborhoods like Bedford-Stuyvesant. ![]()
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