We are not hotels. Our homes are not housing stock. We are real New Yorkers fighting to stay in our homes and take care of our families.

RHOAR represents 700+ New York City households. We are as dynamic and diverse as New York City itself.

We are life-long New Yorkers, single parents, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ+, retirees and differently abled. We are municipal/government workers, union members, artists, makers, private sector employees, teachers, activists, small business owners, community board members, block association officers and more.

RHOAR in the News

  • Should the city allow short-term rentals?

  • NYC Airbnb Crackdown May Lead Small Hosts to Foreclosure

  • Staten Islander is among NYC residents fighting for homeowners’ short-term rental rights

  • Airbnb Claims NYC Crackdown Hasn’t Delivered on Consumer Promises

  • Democrats, Progressives, And The Great NYC Eviction: How Gentrification Politics Betrayed Black And Latino Homeowners

  • NYC Airbnb hosts on brink of foreclosure following city clampdown: report

  • THE END OF AIRBNB IN NYC?

  • Can a New Law Force Airbnb Hosts to Become Landlords?

  • Airbnb Squatter Squabble in California Hits Home in NYC Short-Term Rental Crackdown

  • The End of Airbnb in New York

  • “Airbnbust” rocks New York’s short-term rental landscape

  • Tourism and Short Term Housing Discussed

  • Public Advocate Jumaane Williams Discusses Short Term Rentals

  • Airbnb host ‘concerned’ about paying expenses as NYC enacts stricter rules

  • New York City is restricting Airbnb

  • Did NYC Just Kneecap Airbnb?

  • New York City Cracked Down on Airbnb, What Next?

  • Airbnb listings in NYC plunge 77% after city crackdown: report

  • How People Are Coping With New York City’s Airbnb Crackdown

  • Town Hall with Mayor Adams

  • Host Rally at City Hall

  • Airbnb’s Secret Weapon to Fight State Laws: Its Hosts

  • 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.

  • We Can’t Forget Small Homeowners Impacted by the Housing Affordability Crisis

  • Banning Airbnb Won’t Solve the Housing Crisis

  • A Bed-Stuy homeowner says NYC's Airbnb ban is hurting her and other homeowners

  • Narcisse bill would loosen Airbnb limits for 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 Local Law 18 to allow New Yorkers who own our homes and live in them full-time to share our homes with up to 4 guests.

Amend the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement (OSE) regulations to allow owners who live in our homes full-time the ability to register full units.

Like renters, homeowners are experiencing an affordability crisis.  Often, income from home sharing helps our families afford the mortgage, upkeep and repair costs, utilities, medical expenses and more. Eliminating the option of home sharing threatens homeowners’ ability to make ends meet, endangering our ability to support our families and stay in our homes.

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%

Who We Are

WHAT WE DO

We are advocating for small corrections to Local Law 18 to allow 1- and 2-family homeowners who own and live in our homes full-time to share our homes. Current law is depriving outer-borough homeowners of crucial income, making them vulnerable to being replaced by real estate investors and wealthy buyers.

We call on the City and our elected officials to pass Bill 948A before more New Yorkers lose their homes.

What You Can Do

There is a bill before the New York City Council—Bill 948A—that will make small changes to Local Law 18. These changes will allow New Yorkers who live in our homes full-time and rely on short-term rental to host up to 4 guests in our homes.

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