AirBnB is killing normal rental markets in quite a few cities here in slovenia, and the locals hate it, so there are huge pushes towards regulation and outright bans by basically everyone except people who actually profit on airbnb.

Basically noone wants daily-changing "neighbors", half of them partying half the nights in their (multi-apartment) buildings, while finding an apartment for rent is getting harder and harder (and much more expensive).

If airbnb was the thing it was marketed as in the beginning (you go on a vacation, rent the apartment out for that week or two), then sure... but people buy apartments (at currently overinflated prices) just to rent it out on airbnb full time.

FYI NYC did not recently pass a law about this.

The law was existing, the city simply chose to start enforcing it.

Perhaps I'm just getting old, but 2016 was when New York State passed the law banning advertising whole homes on AirBnB for < 30 days, and I consider that relatively recent.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/21/13361536/airbnb-new-york...

That’s a good point. I was thinking of NYC, which has had specific laws about short terms rentals (preventing ‘flophouses’ etc.) for as long as I can remember.