NYC Advocates, Electeds To Rally Against MAGA-Backing Airbnb As Company Tries To Sell Out Our City For Profit

Airbnb is pushing dangerous legislation to undermine NYC housing laws while hiding behind the same working-class New Yorkers they are actively hurting; Multi-billion dollar tech company is donating millions to MAGA Republicans and collaborating with Trump admin to profit their shareholders

NEW YORK, NY (10/15/2025) (readMedia)--
TODAY, the Tenants Not Tourists coalition will rally with city and state lawmakers outside City Hall to demand the New York City Council reject Airbnb's attempts to undermine tenant protections and attack our city. Airbnb is pretending to care about working families in New York so they can pass their dangerous legislation, but the company has donated over $3M to Trump and MAGA Republicans who are attacking those same communities. Airbnb's leadership has referred to immigrants as "criminals" and openly worked with the Trump administration - all while Airbnb tries to publicly distance the company from its support for extreme, right-wing politicians. Now, New Yorkers are calling out their efforts to attack our most basic values and roll back our housing laws so they can profit.

Airbnb has spent millions on local elections to buy influence and support for their anti-tenant, anti-worker agenda. The company is now desperately pushing dangerous legislation, Intro 1107, that would take tens of thousands of homes away from permanent residents ahead of next year's World Cup - and before a new pro-tenant Mayor can stop them.

New York will not bend the knee to a multi-billion-dollar tech company that bankrolls Trump, demonizes immigrants, and sells out our most vulnerable communities for profit. Attendees at the rally will urge the Council to reject this MAGA-loving tech company trying to write our housing laws so they can profit at our expense.

This event will be livestreamed.

WHO:

Organizations including the Tenants Not Tourists coalition, Catholic Migration Services, Communities Resist, Community Service Society (CSS), Churches United for Fair Housing (CUFFH), MET Council on Housing, Tenants & Neighbors, members of the Hotel & Gaming Trades Council (HTC) and more.
WHAT:

Rally outside City Hall to demand the NYC Council reject MAGA-backing Airbnb as the company tries to take our homes and sell out our communities for profit.
WHEN: Wednesday October 15, 2025 at 11:00AM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: City Hall
New York, New York 10007
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