Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights Airbnb hosts Launch Club to call for better home sharing laws
On Aug. 29, several Airbnb hosts from Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights came together to launch the Bed-Stuy/Crown Heights Host Club, which plans to organize community members and local small businesses in favor of sensible home sharing laws.
The meeting also served as a forum for hosts to brainstorm ways of putting pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to not sign an anti-Airbnb bill, which, if passed, would fine hosts who advertise their homes on Airbnb as much as $7,500.
Several Airbnb hosts and members of the community spoke at the meeting, which took place at Bedford Hall in Bed-Stuy.