Having the income from hosting is what will allow us to keep our home,” said Sarah Brezavar, one of the hosts suing the city. “We need the supplemental income to cover the expenses of owning this house, including mortgage, fuel oil, utilities, insurance and taxes. Hosts argue the rules, which are set to be enforced next month, will cost them their livelihood.
If there is any discrepancy between the four points of data given to Airbnb by the host and the same information given to the City by the host - e.g., an extra space or the inconsistent abbreviation of “Avenue” to “Ave.”-the listing will not be verified.” In their lawsuit, they state: “If OSE approves an application, then booking services like Airbnb must go through a verification process and ensure an exact match across four points of data, including name, address, URL of the listing, and registration number. “We had to use the income from Airbnb to survive and now the city is trying to rip this away from us,” added Briscoe.Īirbnb criticizes the city’s standards of getting a rental approved. Now, Briscoe and Airbnb, in two separate lawsuits, are challenging the law, arguing it effectively bans short-term rentals in the city. It also requires hosts to understand and comply with a litany of local zoning and building codes. The law established new rules for short-term rentals, including the requirement of hosts to navigate a complicated registration process.
Some of the rules under the law include providing personal information on every person living at the rental and their relationship to the hostīut that income was threatened when Local Law 18 took effect earlier this year.Local Law 18 was passed by the City Council last year but tasked the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement with implementing the law.The two separate lawsuits allege the process for registering and being approved to operate a short-term rental in the city is cumbersome and nearly impossible to pass.Airbnb and three hosts are suing the city over their regulation of the short-term rental market.
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