A protestor against Local Law 18 during a July 2023 rally in NYC. Related storiesThe effects of NYC's Airbnb ban so farNYC's announcement that it would begin enforcing Local Law 18 in September of 2023 shuttered thousands of Airbnb listings. Over a year later, the impacts of NYC's Airbnb ban are unclear, especially as some former listings may be still rented out illegally through Craigslist and Facebook. Tenants' groups say that Local Law 18 needs more time to work. "It was a bill that was supposed to impact housing, and it simply hasn't," Theo Yedinsky, vice president of public policy at Airbnb, told BI this week.

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