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New York City passed an expense Wednesday needing short-term house leasing services, consisting of services like Airbnb, to turn over host information to the Office of Special Enforcement.
Some of that information, which the city desires each month, consists of name, physical address, telephone number, e-mail and profile URL of active hosts. It likewise desires the overall variety of days the residential or commercial property was leased, and the costs that were paid.
Offenders stopping working to comply will go through fines “more than the greater of $1,500 or the total fees collected during the preceding year by the booking for transactions related to the listing.” Yes, complicated, we understand.
The relocation comes in the middle of Airbnb’s intensifying spat with the city which blamed the business for increasing lease costs The expense was revealed hours after Airbnb stated it will economically back a suit submitted by among its hosts inBrooklyn The city had actually enforced large fines on the host for utilizing his basement as a hotel and stopping working to abide by fire codes.
“After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the hotel industry, we’re not surprised the City Council refused to meet with their own constituents who rely on home sharing to pay the bills and then voted to protect the profits of big hotels,” Airbnb’s spokesperson Liz DeBold Fusco informed CNET in an e-mail.
“The fix was in from the start and now New Yorkers will be subject to unchecked, aggressive harassment and privacy violations, rubber stamped by the City Council,” she included.
First released July 18 at 11: 32 p.m. PT.
Update, July 19 at 7: 26 p.m.: Adds remark fromAirbnb
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