Sentences with phrase «operate illegal hotels»

Airbnb has come under fire from elected officials and affordable housing advocates in New York, who say the company is helping operate illegal hotels and potentially driving up the cost of housing throughout the city.

Airbnb officials says a recent poll it commissioned showed that 65 % believe lawmakers «should not penalize middle class families renting out their homes for less than 30 days the same way they penalize people operating illegal hotels and removing housing from the market.»

«I think [Brown] is probably just emptying it out and hoping he can operate an illegal hotel because of the tenants being gone.»

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Called the Airbnb Community Compact, the document outlines several ways that the popular company plans to work with municipalities, including sharing anonymized data on the hosts and guests who use the service, preventing illegal hotel landlords from operating on the platform, and promising to pay its «fair share» of hotel and tourist taxes in cities that have them.

«The law should be carefully amended to make it possible for regular people to occasionally share only the home in which they live, while not providing loopholes for illegal hotels to operate,» the company wrote.

Monadnock Development's Oriwol called the opposition to the project a «knee jerk» reaction from people who fear the building may become an illegal hotel or may operate like a bed and breakfast.

Since the startup was founded in 2008, landlords have argued it violates zoning laws and operates as an illegal hotel.