Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for the duration of the rental

Under the new restrictions, short-term renters will need to register with the city and must be present in the home for the duration of the rental

Home-sharing company Airbnb said it had to stop accepting some reservations in New York City after new regulations on short-term rentals went into effect.

The new rules are intended to effectively end a free-for-all in which landlords and residents have been renting out their apartments by the week or the night to tourists or others in the city for short stays. Advocates say the practice has driven a rise in demand for housing in already scarce neighbourhoods in the city.

Under the new system, rentals shorter than 30 days are only allowed if hosts register with the city. Hosts must also commit to being physically present in the home for the duration of the rental, sharing living quarters with their guest. More than two guests at a time are not allowed, either, meaning families are effectively barred.

      • stigmata@lemmy.world
        410·
        1 year ago

        It’s so fucking obnoxious the way people try to make outlier situations as if it invalidates the argument. You know god damn well the situations you’re describing are an extremely tiny percentage of airbnb usage (honestly if any at all). Don’t be daft.

        • Squizzy@lemmy.world
          291·
          1 year ago

          Ah stop, I get the intention but b&b’s are a thing and always have been. Wanting to sporadically have a visitor in your retirement shouldn’t require becoming a permanent landlord.

            • merridew@feddit.ukEnglish
              172·
              1 year ago

              If the owners are living in it at the same time, and you’re renting out a room, that’s hardly a hotel.

                • merridew@feddit.ukEnglish
                  111·
                  1 year ago

                  I don’t see how that matters. A spare room is a spare room whether it’s in the basement, the first floor, or the attic.

                  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
                    37·
                    1 year ago

                    Where I’m from basement suites are pretty popular. It’s a fully contained suite in the house.

                    What used to be fairly cheap accommodations are now being rented out as hotels and it’s causing a lot of housing problems. If it’s just a room in a basement that’s one thing but it doesn’t sound like it is.

                    Do you understand where I’m coming from now?

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
            229·
            1 year ago

            If you look at the comment I replied to, it said they have a full furnished basement that they airbnb out.

            I said it should be a house for someone to live in.

            I’m not exactly sure where you’re getting “should they be compelled to sell part of their lifelong home outright” or “I don’t think any reasonable person would call me a landlord for renting out my apartment for a week while I take a trip” in my comments, it seems you’re either inventing something to get mad at or you have a guilty conscience.

            • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
              71·
              1 year ago

              Because that’s the standard of living? A basement?

              Fully furnished? I own a home, my guest room is fully furnished in that it has a bed, desk, side tables, and a TV.

              Listen to yourself. Fully furnished doesn’t mean the same as configured with separate utilities, a separate entrance, a separate kitchen, or separate bathing facilities.

              • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
                111·
                1 year ago

                I’m glad you’re housing secure with a guest room, it must be nice.

                Some people would kill for a full furnished basement and instead of being rented out short term it could be housing someone instead and leave the short term to hotels.

                I really don’t understand why this is such a controversial view.

                • Ataraxia@sh.itjust.works
                  52·
                  1 year ago

                  I wouldn’t want someone living in my basement full time. I have no obligation to make that basement available to live in wtf kinda bullshit is this.

                • merridew@feddit.ukEnglish
                  21·
                  1 year ago

                  In this specific instance, I suspect it is because there is every indication that the basement room rented by OP was not, in fact, a fully self contained suite within a house, but was a guest room.

                  How do you physically get into these “basement suites” in your part of the world? When I lived in a townhouse, access to the cellar was via a door in the middle of the property leading off the kitchen. There would be no practical way to split the cellar off from the main property as a separate dwelling. But having guests sleep down there every so often was no big deal.

                  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
                    13·
                    1 year ago

                    Some are walk out basements and have their own ground level entry, some are a separate door and other are a door in the middle of shared living space.

    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      in a case of a house shortage, maybe… but The issue is not that there is a house shortage. It is that the houses are not being used as houses. There are more than enough houses in almost every city to home everyone and several times over to house the homeless. But that isn’t what the houses are being used for. If they were then yeah, they’d have the space likely to rent out like an Airbnb. But there should be no homeless anywhere if there’s enough rooms to pull off Airbnb. But no one is looking at the homeless as an issue before starting an Airbnb.

      Airbnb is unchecked capitalism that got way out of hand. It’s very fucked up to call this a society anymore. This is hell.