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Homes, Not Hotels: A Case for Maintaining Universal Short-Term Rental Regulations
Samuel Stein, Oksana Mironova, Yvonne Peña, Iziah Thompson
Summary:
New York City’s 2022 short-term rental law was designed to keep homes from becoming unregulated hotel rooms. Now, Airbnb is pushing to roll those protections back.
This report shows how allowing host-less short-term rentals would drive up the price of one- and two-unit homes, making ownership even less attainable, pushing rents higher, and shrinking an already limited supply of affordable units.
Issues: Affordable Housing
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