Monthly Archives: January 2014

Legalize Short Rentals in Private Residences in the World

On short rentals: Scale matters, legalize home sharing, penalize residential buildings run as hotels in New York.

There is a fight on home rentals in New York, the whole issue have been framing in different ways, yesterday January 20, 214 was the City Hall, “the Committee on Housing and Buildings. Oversight: Short Term Rentals- Stimulating the Economy or Destabilizing Neighborhoods?”

The big changes in a neighborhood happen with the city’s big re-zoning not with a few residents renting their apartments for a week a month. There is a difference between survival/business and between resident’s rental or hosting/ commercial rental or agent.