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By JT Aregood • 02/27/17 3:44pm
New Jersey took a step toward allowing its cities to regulate or effectively ban the use of Airbnb Monday, with a bill aiming to ban rental agreements shorter than 30 days advancing in committee. The service, which allows app users to rent out their homes or apartments to travelers for even one-night stays, is currently unregulated in the state.
The bill’s sponsor, Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, called the current lack of regulation a threat to public safety after its successful 7-0 vote in the Assembly Tourism, Gaming and the Arts Committee.
“The current practices of short-term rental businesses lack the necessary safety precautions for our municipalities,” Vainieri Huttle said. “We want residents and tourists to enjoy the options provided by companies like Airbnb, but not at the expense of neighbors who live there on a permanent basis. This legislation creates a baseline registry that municipalities can implement as they see fit.”
7-0 in the tour/game /arts…no shit Sherlock. Just another example of the intrenched liberal democrats protecting their turf from another form of E Commerce that they think they can stop under the guise of ” public safety”. The only protection that I need from the legislature is for them to keep their noses out of my business. The future is here, get used to it.
I can’t wait to move out and rent out all of the rooms in my house individually!
I don’t pay 28k in property taxes to live next to a transient rooming house.
If you cannot afford to live here without turning your home into a vagrant hotel, stay in NYC or rock land county
I’m thinking of buying up Ridgewood properties from old people who can’t afford the taxes anymore and turning all of the rooms of these beautiful victorians and tudors and center hall colonials into “sanctuary airbnbs” for “undocumented americans” and perhaps halfway houses for patterson crack moms – us girls gotta stick together.