BREAKING: @Airbnb short-term listings (STR's) in #NYC drop by 70% after enforcement of the city's Registration Law starts.
In August there were 22,434 STR's but only 6,841 on September 5, a drop of 15,593 or 70%. insideairbnb.com/new-york-city
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Mission driven activist project that provides data about @Airbnb's impact on residential communities: by @murrayscox since ‘15 now a project of the @hjdatalab
- New York City Council today voted 42-5 on a law which will require short-term rental hosts to register and platforms like @Airbnb to only accept transactions on registered properties, effectively wiping out illegal hotels in homes, once the law goes into effect in 12 months. 1/7
- Did you know, that the majority of @Airbnb listings in the U.S. are run by commercial operators, some with thousands of listings? These are hundreds of thousands of homes taken out of our housing markets in cities and towns everywhere. 1/8
- On eve of @Airbnb IPO, I release report detailing how most of their listings are illegal in major cities: Berlin (80%), Paris (70%) and NYC(85%). I approach 3 U.S. news agencies to see if they want to write about it? No. Yet written about all over Europe guengl.eu/issues/publica…
- There is so much in this story that shows how wrong @Airbnb is, how their business model depends on commercial hosts and scamlords, all to the detriment of tenants, housing and our communities. Great reporting @ricochet_en and @ZacharyKamelEXCLUSIVE: We identified one of the largest AirBnB ghost hotel networks in Montreal, and spoke to all parties for this exposé. It’s a case study in a popular new property scam making owners and entrepreneurs rich — and leaving long-term tenants homeless. ricochet.media/en/3975/city-f…
- In Toronto from 1st January 2021, short-term rental platforms like @Airbnb must only show listings that are licensed. So far compliance rate for Entire apartments on @Airbnb is 4.7%, i.e. 95% of listings are illegal. #platformaccountability @Fairbnbcanada
- Barcelona proposes to ban Private Room @Airbnb rentals. Cities are on a journey of stricter regulations and more effective enforcement. via @CityLab @FeargusOSull
- Dear @airbnb, do you think maybe your business model is just incompatible with residential properties and neighbourhoods? #homesnothotelsStarting today, we are banning “party houses” and we are redoubling our efforts to combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct, including conduct that leads to the terrible events we saw in Orinda. Here is what we are doing:
- An open call to any laid off @Airbnb employees. If you came across evidence that provides evidence of the systematic evasion of laws and misleading of governments that Airbnb relied on as a foundation of its business model, please dm me or email [email protected]We have great people leaving Airbnb, and I think other companies will love them as much as I do. If you are hiring, reach out to me at [email protected] and our team will connect you. news.airbnb.com/a-message-from…
- Consider how @Airbnb was able to get 100k homes for their #COVID19 response (most for a fee), and then 1M listings for their new desperate long-term rental facelift. All of those listings should have been on the long-term market all along. #letAirbnbFail protocol.com/airbnb-long-te…
- Excited to be part of international round Table organised by the the city of Paris associating Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Together they have decided to strengthen their collaboration and move towards alliance of cities to invent common answers against @Airbnb & coReplying to @IanBrossatLa Ville de Paris organisait aujourd’hui une table ronde internationale associant Lisbonne, Madrid, Barcelone et Amsterdam. Ensemble, nous avons décidé de renforcer notre collaboration et d’avancer vers une alliance des villes pour inventer des réponses communes.
