I am so sorry to hear that you had such headache with the eviction.
I really feel with you. Yes, Yes, this is the biggest problem, outside of airbnb you are vulnerable to squatters. My landlord never told me to stop doing airbnb, I always ask him for an advise, I never wanted to be illegal, I always made it clear to all my neighbors and my landlord that I am doing airbnb. Many of my neighbors do it themselves too. You know if eric adams want really to help immigrants, I applaud it. just he doesn't helps this poor traumatized people by shutting down people like me and leaving me with this crazy insane rental costs alone. My insane rent is definitely not made to help immigrant. If eric adams would ask people like me to accommodate migrant, I wouldn't mind, he just needs to pay their rent to my landlord. But this is definitely not what's happening. In my building places cost starting 6.2k – 12k. And new yorkers know, I am not kidding or making it up. I cannot live at my place myself without airbnb. Eric adams always speaks about house shortage of 500.000 places, but he doesn't understands that we do not have a place shortage, we simple cannot afford this insane rental costs. they buld so much in new york but whenever they are finished with a new building, they put an insane price tag on every place and we walk around williamsburg and ask ourself what do this folks work that they can make 24K per month? they look all not overworked or worried like managers.