Airbnb’s legal battles with New York City are still ongoing, but it looks like there may be an end in sight for one conflict between the city and the home-sharing company. Bloomberg reported on Friday that Airbnb is in settlement talks with New York City that could produce an agreement that puts an end to one of the more controversial disputes between the two parties.
After the City Council passed a law in 2018 requiring home-sharing companies like Airbnb and HomeAway to disclose information about their hosts – like providing hosts’ names and addresses on a monthly basis – Airbnb and HomeAway sued to block the law. A federal judge then granted a preliminary injunction on the grounds that the law would violate Fourth Amendment protections against illegal searches and seizures – a ruling that Airbnb celebrated as evidence that the law was, as the company originally accused, an “extraordinary act of government overreach.”
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