We are a group as dynamic, gritty and diverse as the city itself – immigrants, single parents, people of color, LBGTQ+. We are workers, artists, designers, activists, makers, caregivers, school teachers, and retirees. Active members of our local communities, we support neighborhood businesses, own local businesses, sit on Community Boards, run block associations and more.
RHOAR in the News
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SHOULD THE CITY ALLOW SHORT TERM RENTALS?
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NYC Airbnb Crackdown May Lead Small Hosts to Foreclosure
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Staten Islander is among NYC residents fighting for homeowners’ short-term rental rights
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Airbnb Claims NYC Crackdown Hasn’t Delivered on Consumer Promises
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Democrats, Progressives, And The Great NYC Eviction: How Gentrification Politics Betrayed Black And Latino Homeowners
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NYC Airbnb hosts on brink of foreclosure following city clampdown: report
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THE END OF AIRBNB IN NYC?
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Can a New Law Force Airbnb Hosts to Become Landlords?
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Airbnb Squatter Squabble in California Hits Home in NYC Short-Term Rental Crackdown
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The End of Airbnb in New York
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“Airbnbust” rocks New York’s short-term rental landscape
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Tourism and Short Term Housing Discussed
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Public Advocate Jumaane Williams Discusses Short Term Rentals
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Airbnb host ‘concerned’ about paying expenses as NYC enacts stricter rules
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New York City is restricting Airbnb
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Did NYC Just Kneecap Airbnb?
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New York City Craked Down on Airbnb, What Next?
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Airbnb listings in NYC plunge 77% after city crackdown: report
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How People Are Coping With New York City’s Airbnb Crackdown
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Town Hall with Mayor Adams
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Host Rally at City Hall
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Airbnb’s Secret Weapon to Fight State Laws: Its Hosts
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NYC shuttered 80% of its Airbnbs in an attempt to make housing more affordable. All that's done so far is make hotels more expensive.
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We Can’t Forget Small Homeowners Impacted by the Housing Affordability Crisis
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Banning Airbnb Won’t Solve the Housing Crisis
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A Bed-Stuy homeowner says NYC's Airbnb ban is hurting her and other homeowners
OUR GOAL
To ensure that NYC’s one and two-family homeowners can regain our rights and autonomy over our homes, including the ability to home share.
Amend legislation to allow home sharing and short term rentals (STR) in owner occupied one- and two- family homes.
Amend the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) regulations to allow owner occupied one- and two-family homes the ability to register full units, without two person limits.
Like renters, homeowners need affordable, stable housing. Often rental income is the means through which a homeowner can afford their mortgage, property taxes and insurance. Eliminating the option of home sharing, threatens an owners’ ability to cover these rapidly increasing expenses, possibly creating an additional housing crisis.
RHOAR by the numbers
95%
of our homes are owner-occupied
53%
are people of color
are retired, unemployed or self-employed
46%
lived in our homes for 11 years or longer
50%
WHAT WE DO
We are advocating for a small correction to Local Law 18 (LL18) to return the right to home-sharing to one and two-family homeowners to help them afford to stay in their homes. The current law is depriving outer-borough homeowners of crucial income to help them stay in their homes, making them vulnerable to be replaced with greedy investors turning private homes into “luxury rentals.” This means more displaced New Yorkers, destabilized communities, and a worsening housing crisis.
We call on the City and our elected officials to correct LL18 before more New Yorkers lose their homes.
READY TO TAKE ACTION?