{"id":46767,"date":"2025-11-21T00:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/46767\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T00:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T00:26:08","slug":"mayor-eric-adams-administration-comes-out-swinging-against-devastating-airbnb-bill-serious-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/46767\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration comes out swinging against \u2018devastating\u2019 Airbnb bill: \u2018Serious concerns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration came out swinging Thursday against Airbnb\u2019s multi-million dollar effort to dilute the city\u2019s strict short-term rental laws <\/a>\u2014 warning it\u2019ll lead to inflated rents and exacerbate the housing supply crisis.<\/p>\n

A City Council committee heard testimony from the Mayor\u2019s Office of Special Engagement, along with nearly 90 members of the public, over the package of bills<\/a>, Intros 948-A and 1107-A.<\/p>\n

The proposed laws would change restrictions on short-term rentals, allowing one and two-family homeowners to let out their units without being present for up to 30 days \u2014 which the OSE argued would threaten long-term leases.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis bill allows for the potential loss of this entire group of homes to the short-term rental market, which would be devastating,\u201d warned Christian Klossner, Executive Director of the OSE.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile it may seem like an insignificant change, it is not.\u201d<\/p>\n

City council held a hearing Thursday for two bills that would expand Airbnb\u2019s access to the Big Apple. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Even Bronx Councilwoman Piernina Ana Sanchez, the committee chair, said she had \u201cserious concerns\u201d about the proposals, which sources said were pushed to a hearing by Speaker Adrienne Adams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enter this hearing with serious concerns myself,\u201d Sanchez, a Democrat repping the 14th District, said, noting that 28% of the city\u2019s current housing stock falls under the bill\u2019s purview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShort-term rental policy is one of the most contentious issues before this body,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A slew of unions, including 32BJ SEIU and the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council, came out in droves to oppose the legislation.<\/p>\n

But Council Members Mercedes Narcisse (Brooklyn-46th District), Kevin Riley (Bronx-12th District), and Farah Louis (Brooklyn-45th District), a bill sponsor, led the charge in support \u2014 arguing that current restrictions prevent homeowners from earning necessary extra cash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to carve this little space for the people who need to breathe \u2013 what do I say to those folks,\u201d said bill sponsor Mercedes Narcisse. \u00a0 JUSTIN LANE\/EPA-EFE \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to carve this little space for the people who need to breathe \u2013 what do I say to those folks?\u201d Narcisse argued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no recipe for those people losing their home, they\u2019re losing their homes over $5,000.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the past year, Airbnb has spent $10 million dollars funding a super PAC called \u201cAffordable New York\u201d to push the bills, that target Local Law 18, which the council passed in 2023<\/a> imposing strict regulations on home-sharing, serving a blow to the online rental company. <\/p>\n

The PAC has spent over $2.5 million funding campaigns for pro-Airbnb New York politicos, including Narcisse, Riley and Louis, who all successfully ran for re-election this year in their respective districts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Airbnb argued the bill would not affect the city\u2019s housing supply. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was interesting that the sponsors made it sound like it was all about homeowners, but they left out the fact that their campaigns were pretty much carried by the support they got from Airbnb,\u201d\u00a0Estaban Gir\u00f3n, political director for TenantsPAC, which opposes the legislation, told The Post after testifying at the hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Nathan Rotman, director of policy strategy for Airbnb, insisted intro 948 \u201cwould not affect the city\u2019s housing supply.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven with these updates, New York City would still have one of the strictest short-term rental laws in the world,\u201d Rotman said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why more than a dozen local housing groups and advocates agree it\u2019s time to fix a law that has failed homeowners and restore New Yorkers\u2019 ability to share extra space in their homes to help weather this once-in-a-generation affordability crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council spokesperson Rendy Desamours didn\u2019t say whether Adams, no relation to the mayor, supports the bills, but noted: \u201cThe overwhelming engagement at today\u2019s hearing reflected the ongoing concerns about the impact of the bills on the City\u2019s housing stock and the need to support financially struggling homeowners amidst a housing crisis.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 administration came out swinging Thursday against Airbnb\u2019s multi-million dollar effort to dilute the city\u2019s strict…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[446,13382,301,2907,57,9,24,63,134,136,135,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-46767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-adrienne-adams","9":"tag-airbnb","10":"tag-city-council","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-staten-island","17":"tag-staten-island-headlines","18":"tag-staten-island-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}