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.
We advocate for the return of our rights and autonomy, so we have the flexibility of home sharing and short-term rentals to afford and maintain our homes.
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
OUR GOAL
To ensure that NYC’s one and two-family homeowners can regain our rights and autonomy over our homes, including the flexibility of short-term rentals.
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. Eliminating the option of short-term rentals, will threaten owners’ ability to cover their mortgages, possibly creating an additional housing crisis.
RHOAR by the numbers
95%
of our homes are owner-occupied
51%
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 seek a solution to correct Local Law 18 and its implementation by the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) to return one and two-family homeowners our rights to have autonomy over our homes.
Local Law 18 of 2022 requires the registration of properties providing STR. Our understanding is the intent was to crack down on rent-regulated units being used for STR and apartment warehousing by large landlords and people listing multiple units for massive profits. However, in the implementation of this law, the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement universally disqualified all one- and two-family homes from even being able to apply for registration for whole-unit rentals.
Ultimately, if not reversed, the City will drive small homeowners like us out of NYC to be replaced with more “luxury rentals” which further displaces more of the city’s backbone of local neighborhoods. Protecting NYC means protecting one and two-family homeowners.
We call on the City and our elected officials to change course before it’s too late.
READY TO TAKE ACTION?