The New York City Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement was hit on Thursday with a lawsuit opposing a short-term rental law from rental platform Airbnb.
The Manhattan skyline is seen from the Empire State Building on April 3, 2021, in New York City.sent to Big Apple hosts by Global Policy Director Theo Yedinsky, Airbnb claimed Local Law 18 and its rules "effectively ban short-term rentals in New York City," calling them "punitive and burdensome." The company also alleged in its petition that the rules would cause "irreparable harm" to both Airbnb and people in New York City.
The company claimed the registration requirement could deter short-term rentals "by requiring extensive and intrusive disclosures of personal information and forcing open-ended agreement to labyrinthine regulations scattered across a complex web of laws, codes and regulations.
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