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Airbnb taken legal action against New York City on Friday over a costs needing the business to turn over the names and addresses of individuals who lease their houses on its website.
The law, which was passed last month by the New York City Council, is developed to make it much easier to discover “bad actors” that lease a number of apartment or condos to travelers on a short-term basis, which can be bothersome provided the city’s minimal real estate supply, the council stated. If Airbnb declines to share information, it might be fined countless dollars.
“The Ordinance is an unlawful end-run around established restraints on governmental action and violates core constitutional rights under the First and Fourth Amendments to the US Constitution,” Airbnb states in the match, which was submitted in a United States District Court in NewYork
Earlier this year, after comparable legislation entered into result in San Francisco, almost half of Airbnb’s listings in the city vanished The Office of Special Enforcement in New York approximates that around two-thirds of Airbnb listings are unlawful, according toRecode
The city of New York didn’t right away react to an ask for remark.
Read the complete suit listed below:
082418 Airbnb v City of NY Complaint by jonathan_skillings on Scribd
