Airbnb has just received another blow in the united States. In the country where Uber, your pair of the “informal taxis”, seems to be installed with few restrictions and low resistance of carriers-traditional, platform rentals for tourists begins to have more and more obstacles.
Now, nothing less than New York set fines of up to 7.500 dollar owners offering accommodation in multi-family buildings for less than 30 days, a practical that in that State it is illegal and that is based business of one of the most successful companies of the web in the last few years.
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Shortly after Miami will begin to punish those that offer their homes to tourists for the web, the restrictions came with force to the Big Apple, an essential to the business of rentals on-line. Only in Manhattan, Airbnb recorded during August 45.000 deals, which add a further 13,000 in the rest of the territory new york.
Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, will put his signature on Friday to the law that stiffens fines and which had been approved at mid-year by the legislative power of the State. The new standard came to her desk last Tuesday, and he had 10 days to decide if the vetaba or not.
Until that time, the democratic leader had done absolute silence about the strong clash that Airbnb has on the hotel industry, and that’s why your decision age unknown. In just three days unveiled the mystery.
On Airbnb, anyway, moved as fast as. Immediately presented a demand Justice to override one of the laws considered to be more restrictive against your business in the united States. The concern of the company digital is that New York becomes a kind of “leading case“, and this policy starts to play around the country, something that would threaten what until now was your main strategy to defend themselves: negotiating state-by-State, city-by-city.
In New York rents for less than a month in multi-family units are prohibited since 2010, but up until now the authorities have a very difficult to apply this restriction. The new standard, in addition to toughen the sanctions, seeks to facilitate the task
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Now, the neighbors of the departments that are offered through portals like Airbnb can be reported violations of the rules for rentals. Also are enabled to do so the owners identified their tenants subalquilan the housing, if you don’t agree with them.
in Addition, the law gives via free to the local authorities to crawl the different platforms website and detect any breach. As well, aim to combat the growing phenomenon of illegal hotels.
The legislator democrat Linda Rosenthal, author of the initiative, defended the proposal because it thinks that web sites like Airbnb base their business on breaking the law and bring housing prices to levels that people can’t afford. In addition, accused the company of not fighting the rentals illegal.
given the possibility that the governor would give the nod to the law, Airbnb introduced in the week an initiative to self-regulation. There was proposed to create a registration for owners who choose to offer their homes for a short period of time, similar to that already used in Chicago, and that would be available to the authorities of the State. Also, limit the number of homes full that we could rent, as they already do in San Francisco. In addition, the site was offered to collect taxes, an initiative that already negotiated with the city of Newark.
The attempt did not work. Now Airbnb defend, in Justice to your business in New York. Beyond state authorities, rival with which you are facing is not minor. From hotel industry tend to accuse the platform of rentals of unfair competition and highlighted that, while the large chains of hotels generate tens of thousands of jobs around the world, a portal can be done with just one hundred employees.
The portal offers around the world, houses, apartments and even rooms in shared housing for short breaks, which usually starts in the three days. Through the platform, users see photos of the property, checks its location and consult the reviews left by tourists who have already stayed in each place. In addition, they have direct contact with the owners. The payment with credit card, is credited to the owner of the property newly 24 hours after arriving at the site chosen, which allows, for any breach, undo the operation and save the money.
The system and became a hit, in particular among the tourists is not traditional, that they value to spend their days traveling in a housing that allows them to feel local. in Addition, the rates are significantly lower than in traditional hotels, which gradually began to attract a wider audience.
The rapid impact that had Airbnb alerted immediately to the hoteliers, who came out openly to the crossing of this new modality. It is not for less: in the past year the chamber groups in New York city we put numbers to the dispute to disseminate a report where it was determined that between September 2014 and August 2015, the sector he had lost more than 2,100 million of dollars for the operations of its new competitor. The portal, of course, is for large strings quite a bit more than a nuisance. Their leaders know it. That’s why they came out to say that the new law is tailor-made for the hotel. And don’t give up: will fight in the courts new yorkers.
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