As New York City continues to face a shortage of affordable housing, a new Airbnb commissioned poll finds 81% of New Yorkers believe the city is going in the wrong direction when it comes to housing affordability. The survey done by Clarafy Research had 1,000 registered New York City voters participate between Aug. 27 and Sept. 3, with a margin of error of 3.1%.

Airbnb has compared the findings to a similar poll taken earlier this year by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, to try to bolster support for Intro 1107, a City Council bill that would reform the city’s two-year-old Local Law 18, which the short-term rental platform argues almost completely bans the short-term rental industry.

Among the requirements of Local Law 18, short-term rental owners must register their properties with t

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