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NEW YORK CITY — Illegal hotel complaints increased 62 percent last year because short - term rental sites such as Airbnb are violating the law, hurting efforts to provide affordable housing and placing the safety of legal tenants at risk, elected officials said Tuesday during a marathon City Council hearing.
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During the hearing, a city official said 681 complaints about illegal hotels have been registered since January.
De Blasio spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick said, «We look forward to discussing the council's priorities through the budget process,» but she insisted, «We have a strong enforcement apparatus to pursue complaints of illegal hotel activity.»
As Cuomo ponders a bill to curb Airbnb, the online booking service said it's policing its website to remove commercial operators in the city, addressing a chief complaint of critics who say it promotes illegal hotels and effectively takes scarce apartments out of circulation.
There were 1,150 complaints about «illegal hotels» to the city's 311 hot line in 2014 — a 62 percent jump over the 712 calls operators fielded in 2013, said Elizabeth Glazer, who heads the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement.