"New York City's small homeowners are families who have fought hard to buy and keep up homes and create generational wealth for themselves and their families," said Gia Sharp, a homeowner in Sunset Park. "Before you say, 'Why are you buying a home that you can't afford?,' homeownership shouldn't be reserved only for the wealthy - it should be attainable and sustainable for people like us, too."
"We have 550 homeowners at this point and they live in all five boroughs- so they have local businesses who have told them the traffic has been lower since Local Law 18 has happened, they're not seeing novel faces anymore," Sharp said.
While Sharp understands that the law helps to address "bad actors," or those who only own an apartment solely for the reason to rent out to tourists, she said the law is otherwise too harsh.
Homeowners who are part of RHOAR (Restore Homeowner Autonomy and Rights) NYC, a group of one- and two-family homeowners, are asking city officials to amend Local Law 18, which prohibits the short-term rental of homes for durations less than 30 days.
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