The Hearing
November 20, 2025
Published February 15, 2026 ยท Updated February 15, 2026
On November 20, 2025, the Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection convened a public hearing that touched, directly, on the future of Int. 948-B. The record of that hearing is the single most detail-dense document in this section.
Homeowners who had signed up to testify were held to a strict 90-second cutoff. The gavel came down at 90 seconds regardless of whether the homeowner had finished the sentence, the citation, or the address they were describing. One opposing witness โ appearing in a different capacity โ was permitted 8 minutes and 30 seconds of uninterrupted testimony. Both durations are on the meeting record.
Under questioning, the director of the Office of Special Enforcement acknowledged that the verification standard being applied to owner-occupied homes was not the standard contemplated when the registration regime was originally drafted. That admission is on the public transcript.
A separate line of questioning asked how many units of NYCHA housing were, at that moment, sitting vacant while short-term rental enforcement was being pursued as a housing-supply measure. The question was taken under advisement. As of this page's most recent update, no answer has been submitted for the record.