They pointed to several other factors - none related to Airbnb - that may have contributed to the housing shortage.

But there’s a difference now: There are just so few apartments to be had that Airbnbs make up the majority of the city’s available rentals.Īirbnb doesn’t release listings or bookings data and wouldn’t comment on the data collected by AirDNA and Inside Airbnb, though its representatives were willing to confirm that its New York City listing inventory has fallen since the start of the pandemic. The absolute number of available apartments and houses on the site peaked before the pandemic and has since dropped back, according to both Inside Airbnb and AirDNA. Inside Airbnb, another site that scrapes Airbnb for listings data, puts the number even higher, at 20,397.Įver since Airbnb came on the scene in 2008, there have been concerns that the short-term-rental company would deplete the housing stock by sucking up available rooms, causing prices to rise in cities like New York and San Francisco, where there were already severe housing shortages. Which is several thousand less than the number of entire-apartment and entire-home Airbnb rentals available in New York City right now: 10,572, according to AirDNA, a third-party site that tracks short-term rentals. Inventory in all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and northwest Queens has been hovering well below 10,000 units - as of April, the number was just 7,669. There are now bidding wars for one in every five Manhattan rental apartments (and one in three luxury units), according to the most recent Douglas Elliman report. Photo-Illustration: Curbed Photo: Getty Images

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