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Purpose-built Class B condo buildings — legally permitted for transient occupancy and marketed at $1,500-plus per night — are largely unaffected by enforcement aimed at private dwellings. Every night an owner-occupant is deterred from hosting is a night that demand can be picked up by an operator with in-house counsel, a doorman, and no risk of a five-figure OSE violation.
HTC and HANYC have collectively reported on the order of ~$1M in spending associated with securing and defending LL18's current enforcement posture. That is not the profile of a housing-supply reform. It is the profile of a competition-management campaign, executed against homeowners.
While enforcement lands on owner-occupied homes in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, the structural drivers of the housing crisis go untouched: warehoused rent-stabilized units, conversions of rent-stabilized buildings into luxury product, vacancy in institutionally owned inventory. None of those are solved — or even reached — by punishing a homeowner who hosted their niece's wedding party.