Airbnb faces a fight for its survival in the Big Apple. Andrew Cuomo, the governor of the state of New York, prepares to sign a law that would put an end to the online business of accommodation of short-term in the city.
The startup of San Francisco made a campaign for eleven hours to stop legislation, by offering to set a mandatory system of registration of owners that will help the State to do a follow-up of the tenants. It also proposed a standard "a host, a housing" to limit the challenge that means for hoteliers new yorkers.
Cuomo must decide whether to sign the bill at the end of next week. If it becomes law, will impose fines of up to$ 7500 to any host to issue a temporary accommodation through Airbnb.
Linda Rosenthal, the legislator who is driving the bill, said to Financial Times that the concessions of Airbnb "are absolutely insufficient" to mitigate their concerns. And stated that the company is reducing the stock of affordable housing in Manhattan. "The most hypocritical of this is that Airbnb says that it is taking care of the average new yorker that you need to arrive at the end of the month".
The online service, which connects owners of houses and apartments to tourists and other renters in cities around the world, often clashes with the regulations that accuse the company of facilitating business hotels illegal, and reduce the stock of affordable housing.
In New York, the chambers hotel and the city officials come complaining insistently because Airbnb is not complying with a law of accommodations from 2010 that prohibits rentals for short periods, but that rarely takes into account.
Yesterday the company said it wanted to pay taxes in New York, and you could generate close to$ 90 million per year to the State if officials in your new program of registration of owners. The company also proposed a rule that would ban permanently to those hosts who violate the law of accommodation, 2010 on more than three occasions.
Airbnb has already agreed with respect to the collection and remittance of taxes in many other cities, including Paris, its largest market. In the City of New York, offers a total of 46,000 departments and housing.
like other startups of Silicon Valley that has disrupted the business models of traditional, Airbnb was forced, often confronting, to be more sensitive to the local regulations, and interest groups.
The company is experimenting with the model of distribution of income according to which part of the from the rentals of Airbnb, they return to the same buildings of departments, and executives claimed that the mechanism could be extended to New York.
Airbnb is still one of the new firms of Silicon Valley’s most successful, with a valuation of u$ s 30.000 million. For the company it is crucial to get a truce regulatory in key markets such as New York City, given that it is analyzing to launch their shares on the stock exchange within the next two years.
Chris Lehane, director of policy at Airbnb, asked Cuomo to veto the bill anti-Airbnb, saying that the legislation represented special interests and the lobby of the chamber of hotels.
Airbnb also faces a trial with the City of San Francisco, his native city, that it intends to fine the company if the hosts who offer their properties on the online platform have not been registered with the authorities of the city.
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