NYHOA organized a legislative response built around one narrow idea: restore the distinction state law already drew, for owner-occupied primary residences only. Not deregulation, not a rollback of Local Law 18's core protections against illegal hotels — a carve-out sized to exactly the population the law was never meant to touch.

Intro 948, introduced June 6, 2024, was the original version — expanding the occupancy threshold for lawful short-term hosting in one- and two-family homes and reaffirming their status as private dwellings under state law. A separate, broader proposal, Intro 1107, emerged around the same time with Airbnb's backing, built without NYHOA's direct involvement and aimed at a wider, vaguer scope. When 1107 didn't advance, its narrower definitional clarifications were absorbed back into the original framework, producing Intro 948-A — a consolidated bill that closed contradictions between the Multiple Dwelling Law, the Housing Maintenance Code, and the Building Code while keeping the focus squarely on owner-occupied homes.

The bill continued evolving into Intro 948-B, drafted in December 2025 ahead of an anticipated committee vote. That vote never came. Despite a coalition of nine Council co-sponsors and institutional backing spanning the NAACP New York State Conference, National Action Network, both the Manhattan and Brooklyn Chambers of Commerce, and several housing-focused nonprofits, the bill was laid over in committee and expired when the 2025 legislative session ended on December 31 without ever reaching a floor vote.

The fight didn't end there. On April 30, 2026, the bill was reintroduced as Intro 879 — carrying forward six of the original nine Council co-sponsors, and keeping the same core language and goal that drove this effort from the start. Intro 879 is the current, live version of this legislation, currently pending before the Committee on Housing and Buildings. A full visual breakdown of every stage of this bill's evolution, including what changed and why at each step, is available in the Research Library.

1. June 2024
   Intro 948
   Original bill. Prime sponsor Mercedes Narcisse, eight co-sponsors.
2. Late 2024
   1107-A
   Companion / revised draft addressing verification carve-outs.
3. Early 2025
   948-A
   First amended version — narrowed to owner-occupied one- and two-family homes.
4. Fall 2025
   948-B
   Second amended version, aged into the record by Speaker Adrienne Adams ahead of an anticipated committee vote.
5. April 30, 2026
   Intro 879
   Reintroduced current-session bill. Same core language, six of the original nine co-sponsors still on it.

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