Airbnb and New York settle their dispute

It is one of its most important markets, and it was one of its oldest litigation. Airbnb and New York have just reached an agreement to rent housing in the city of 8 million people. It plans that the platform will now send information about its hosts to the municipality when a unit has been rented whole for at least five nights per quarter.

In other words, an apartment rented whole one or two weekends per quarter will not be the subject of information transmission, any more than an apartment of which only one room is rented, even regularly. Thanks to this agreement, “we will have the key information we need to protect affordable housing,” said Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, in a statement. Like other large metropolises, New York is hunting down accommodation captured by tourist customers, which reduces supply for residents and directly competes with hotels.

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