What rights should homeowners have in their own homes?
A homeowner-rights campaign documenting the fight to protect owner-occupied private homes in New York — and the constitutional principles that reach homeowners everywhere.
Why this exists
This project exists because homeowners were left out of a public debate that was falsely framed as a fight between Airbnb and the hotel industry. Some have tried to frame this as a debate about Airbnb. It isn’t. It is about the rights of families who own the homes they live in — what they can do inside their own walls, who they can welcome, and how much of their lives a city may regulate.
The Homeowner Rights Project preserves the record of that fight so it cannot be rewritten later: the testimony, the filings, the hearings, the bills, and the homeowners who spoke plainly about what was at stake.
The platform changed. Our rights did not.
The people this law reached into.
Homeowners across the five boroughs, in their own words. A living archive of photos, video, audio, and written testimony.
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From a law to a lawsuit — five moments.
A successor bill is reintroduced and is currently pending before the City Council.
Freshest to the archive.
Owner-occupied hosting under Local Law 18: a two-year enforcement review
A structured review of enforcement patterns, verification denials, and the practical effect on small owner-occupied homeowners since Local Law 18 took effect.
Published February 2026