In Popular NYC Neighborhoods, 1 in 5 Apartments Is On Airbnb
By Jeffrey Ditri, New York City Residential Rental Specialist
(JAD Realty Group, LLC.)
According to a new study conducted by affordable housing advocates New York Communities for Change and Real Affordability For All that was cited by the Daily News, one out of five apartments in the city's most popular neighborhoods is available on Airbnb. The East Village leads the pack, with 28-percent of apartments available for let on the website. In other neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan, and in Long Island City, about 10 percent of available housing stockhas been taken over by the room share website. The study also found that the average rental was available for 247 days a year and rented 109 of those nights, which shoots down Airbnb's intention of running a site where city dwellers can rent their rooms when they're briefly out of town, and instead supports that the...
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