7/18/2026 at 10:44:45 PM
This is awesome! StreetEasy is how many New Yorkers find apartments. In the past few years, it has been flooded with AI-staged apartments. The AI stagings warp the room to fit furniture that would 100% certainly not fit there. It’s deceptive, and I’m glad it at least requires disclosure now (although I wish it were fully banned)by plants
7/19/2026 at 1:44:34 AM
Not going to lie, I wish they also added a square footage as a legal requirement too.It is entirely baffling to me as to why, but NYC is the only major city in the US I've ever lived in where it is genuinely a problem. In all other cities, I had no issues with that, pretty much every single posting online had square footage.
Meanwhile, on StreetEasy (and other platforms listing NYC rental units), looking for apartments is a major pain, because majority have zero square footage info. And then it turns into a pure guessing game that becomes super annoying, because an apartment I might be interested in is listed only as "1 bedroom", but just looking at the pics it is impossible to gauge whether it is 400sqft or 900sqft. Knowing that info would have made it much easier for renters, and I cannot think of a logical reason to not provide that information.
by filoleg
7/19/2026 at 2:10:47 AM
There is square footage on many NYC listings, but it’s wrong. They often have the square footage of the total area occupied by the apartment, including all the interior walls and columns that can take 20% of the area away.by pclmulqdq
7/19/2026 at 6:54:29 AM
Wild. In Netherlands (and I assume other European countries as well) there’s a regulatory norm for how spaces should be measured - what counts as liveable, non-liveable, etc. It’s so much fairer and clearer for everyone involved.https://www.nen.nl/bouw/beheer-en-onderhoud/oppervlaktebepal...
by cr1895
7/19/2026 at 8:46:40 AM
Back in the third world I remember my parents looked up the reference price per m^2 in the area and would divide the price by that to estimate the size.Advertised amounts would be off by 20-25%. When you confronted them about it realtors would just give you the real number, I guess most people wouldn't go through the trouble so it was worth trying for them.
by Laurel1234
7/19/2026 at 8:03:10 AM
Regulations? That sounds very anti freedom.by hdgvhicv
7/19/2026 at 8:09:54 AM
[flagged]by mikojan
7/19/2026 at 5:46:50 PM
We largely have these regulations in the US too (at the state level), we just don't reuse them. Naturally there are rules about what is livable versus what is not. A balcony is not. A room with no windows isn't even a bedroom. That kind of stuff.It would be truly trivial to then just transform that to calculating square footage, and many states do just that. But not all. It's a problem of motivation, not necessarily ability or cost.
by preg_match
7/19/2026 at 7:31:29 AM
Right? Germany too. I wouldn’t even have thought this could be a problem…by 9dev
7/20/2026 at 8:31:00 AM
Until you measure the apartment later and find out that a) it's much smaller and b) it doesn't matter because you rent the apartment as seen, not as advertised.by tstenner
7/20/2026 at 8:37:53 AM
Well, in Germany at least - if the living space differs drastically, that is at least 10%, you can lower the rent accordingly and make a demand for a refund of the entire rent you overpaid since you moved in - and you probably should also make a second case for damages due to purposeful deception.A consumer doesn't buy anything from a business "as seen", that is not a thing over here. There are binding rules to protect consumers from malevolent sellers or landlords, and legal obligations you can't subvert by tricking customers into purchasing something different from what was advertised.
by 9dev
7/19/2026 at 7:57:18 AM
In some countries, like a poster mentioned, they include the “built” size, not the actual liveable size. Sometimes the balconies are included in that, and it is misleading. Two bedrooms in 900sqf liveable is one thing vs 3 bedrooms in 900sqf built area including balconies.by ExoticPearTree
7/19/2026 at 1:54:43 PM
... Huh. This actually explains something I'd been confused about before; people on this site claiming that a 1000sqft apartment was small. Which, I suppose, if you include the entire footprint of the apartment including balconies, sure. It would never have occurred to me to do it like that.by rsynnott
7/19/2026 at 8:10:04 AM
Maybe it’s different for rentals but you’d think the banks would also want accurate data on the properties they’re mortgaging…and cities for tax revenue…so strange!by cr1895
7/19/2026 at 3:05:25 PM
For big commercial rental properties they probably don’t care because it doesn’t really push the property value.I don’t think it really changes the property value because those interior walls are usually cosmetic and not load bearing. If the bank has to foreclose, the next buyer will be well aware they can strip those walls out for nothing relative to the cost of buying the building.
I’m doubtful it pushes the tax revenue for the same reason, everyone is already evaluating based on what it could be.
Smaller units are probably just not worth the effort to manage. It’s a lot of over head to start auditing old duplexes where the owner has a property or two and isn’t a giant company with a whole compliance department.
by everforward
7/19/2026 at 12:58:36 PM
Why? Banks and cities only care about the price. They also want price to be under and over estimated respectively, neither would want the accurate price, even less so the accurate area.by pandaman
7/19/2026 at 1:39:09 PM
Are there no property taxes in the US? And how do you know if the price is reasonable without knowing its relationship to the property size?by Kwpolska
7/19/2026 at 4:20:15 PM
There are property taxes in the US, they are levied on the appraisal price of the property, not on the living area. You know the price is reasonable from the comps. As you're overestimating or the appraisal is already at the legal cap (in case of taxes) you don't really care about the living area.by pandaman
7/19/2026 at 3:43:39 PM
There are no US-wide property taxes. However, almost every home in the US has to pay property taxes to at least one level of government. That's what pandaman was referring to when they said the city (which would be levying the taxes) would want the footprint overstated so they could get more tax revenueby HWR_14
7/19/2026 at 2:45:55 PM
Well technically, if anything, overstating the area available for rent would increase the paper value of your property, and thus usually your taxes.by bragr
7/19/2026 at 5:03:20 AM
I didn’t know the square footage of my apartment until I had built an app that utilizes LiDAR to actually measure it. Broker told me 650 square feet - it’s precisely 505 square feet.(Won’t advertise my app, but you can find many on the iOS App Store).
Would be nice for StreetEasy to have some kind of third party verification about apartment size claims.
by jfrbfbreudh
7/19/2026 at 5:11:03 PM
If you are hesitant to mention it in the comments, please consider at least putting it in your profile bio. This sounds like a genuinely useful tool that I would personally want to use myself.by filoleg
7/19/2026 at 9:58:29 PM
Done. Enjoy!by jfrbfbreudh
7/19/2026 at 3:04:12 PM
Do mention your app! HN only frowns upon astroturfing. If you disclose that it is your app, then it's fine to link to it.by kirubakaran
7/19/2026 at 2:35:03 PM
Louis Rossmann has a number of videos from the period when he was searching for retail space in Manhattan. He would take a laser measure and verify listing info himself. The sf on listings was almost universally not just wrong, but audaciously wrong. "Whatcha gonna do about it?" wrong.by 59percentmore
7/19/2026 at 3:25:12 AM
Don't forget about those common areas too! I've seen many cases where hallways, elevators, and stairwells were included in the square footage numbers.by luckman212
7/19/2026 at 4:51:53 AM
The normal definition of square footage I've seen typically includes hallways and stairs. (Though often not garages.)Personally, I wish we would normalize including exact floor plans with measurements.
by JoshTriplett
7/19/2026 at 4:59:49 AM
They mean the apartment building hallways and elevators. As in, if you summed the square footage of all the apartments on a floor, you'd get a number greater than the actual dimensions of the floor, because the common areas are counted multiple times.by hirsin
7/19/2026 at 10:55:54 AM
That shouldn’t be the case. In some cases it would also be ridiculous, when the common areas are larger than the apartments themselves (corridors, elevators, technical rooms, etc.). They do include the proportional square footage corresponding to each apartment. But this is still very misleading because some buildings have a lot of common areas that can double the advertised size of the very small apartments.by close04
7/19/2026 at 6:54:09 PM
Oh, I see. Yeah, that's false advertising. "Square footage" of a dwelling should only include your own private space, not any common areas.by JoshTriplett
7/19/2026 at 6:26:59 AM
Could include the size of the pavements fronting the building and the basement with those trash bin also are shared space.by hirako2000
7/19/2026 at 12:30:57 PM
They also often include external square footage like balconies which warp it.by bpicolo
7/19/2026 at 1:56:47 AM
> and I cannot think of a logical reason to not provide that information.The reason is simple. Omission is deception.
by hbarka
7/19/2026 at 2:32:29 AM
If it had a “good” square footage, it would be touted front and center. Because it’s not, you know it doesn’t.I see this all the time with motorcycle PPE. If something was CE A, AA, or AAA rated, it’d be at the top of the description/specs. When it’s not, I know it’s not so I just move on.
by LgWoodenBadger
7/19/2026 at 5:48:50 PM
Where it gets tricky is when the good people and bad people start working together because they both sell bad products. What I mean is: purposefully not advertising your good traits front and center, so that your worse product then "shine" more. And then everyone catches on and all your signals are gone. It happens sometimes.by preg_match
7/19/2026 at 2:38:37 AM
I wish that e-bike ads had the classification. The bike classes are well-defined AFAIK - it's the class legality that's regional, if any. Right now, they're actively helping riders skirt/evade the laws.by drivingmenuts
7/19/2026 at 3:21:04 AM
I'm pretty sure if they stopped skirting the laws, it'd eliminate a decent cohort of their customer base. Watching someone come through a pedestrian area at 45 mph on a "bicycle" that clearly is an electric motorcycle is pretty interesting.by sidewndr46
7/19/2026 at 3:44:19 AM
Holy crap! How do they stop at that speed with those thin bicycle tires?by moron4hire
7/19/2026 at 9:13:48 PM
Very slowly. Stopping is not as a big of an issue as cornering though - not only they don't have adequate traction for the speed and mass but they also don't use the front brake. Which is great as the trails which are fun to ride because of all the bends are also e-bike free other than old people riding their pedal-assist bikes at 15 mph.by pandaman
7/19/2026 at 9:29:51 AM
My e-scooter reaches 45 mph (advertised as 53). Normally, you would stop using the brakes or regen.by LoganDark
7/19/2026 at 7:45:32 AM
What thin bicycle tires - they are much thicker than normal.However yes they are a problem.
by pasc1878
7/19/2026 at 3:04:27 AM
No value is essentially "smaller than you would find acceptable."by doginasuit
7/20/2026 at 3:47:00 PM
Wouldn’t it be easier for streeteasy to simply stop allowing 0 sq ft listings/innacurate listings? Maybe allowing people to report listings that are inaccurate and banning repeat offenders? If the market feels that strongly, the pressure on the company would be easy to achieve?by therealpygon
7/19/2026 at 3:20:17 AM
> just looking at the pics it is impossible to gauge whether it is 400sqft or 900sqftThose are not good pics. Probably* for the same reason, to hide size and maybe something else.
*Depends on culture and I don't know about NYC. I've seen another landlord's market where quite a few landlords just post one or two useless photos — and even heard advice to pay attention to such postings as they're definitely not prepared by a professional agent.
by owl57
7/19/2026 at 2:25:55 AM
> I cannot think of a logical reason to not provide that information.Because it's to an extreme degree a landlord's market and thus none of them have any incentive to do more than the bare minimum?
Even if it was listed everyone would "stretch" things by including closets and the like. The only way it would work is if the city did the measurements and maintained a database...but then you'd have people bribing the inspectors. they already do it over fire code.
Renting an apartment should require at a minimum registration, inspection (fire code - window/egress, detectors, and ideally an extinguisher and fire blanket), proof of insurance, and some sort of bond per unit that the city holds onto and uses for emergency code compliance repairs.
by KennyBlanken
7/19/2026 at 4:10:21 AM
> Because it's to an extreme degree a landlord's market and thus none of them have any incentive to do more than the bare minimum?okay let's change that? seems bad
by whateveracct
7/19/2026 at 6:23:21 AM
It's a landlord's market because there are not enough properties, if there was a larger supply the tenants would be able to make choices and defacto reject bad options.How do you change that, short of building more?
by stevekemp
7/19/2026 at 8:14:18 AM
In Europe we've used regulations. There's standardised ways to measure area of an apartment/house, and it has to be included in any ads and contract of sale/rent. If the actual area doesn't match what's in the ads/contract the landlord/seller will be in trouble. I saw a news article once where the landlord,iirc, had to return all rent money to the tenant. The tenant had lived there for a while(memory is fuzzy, I think it was years, but don't quote me on that) and in the end only paid for electricity.I hear you guys like suing eachother in the states, seems like this kind of regulation would suit you just fine!
by amarant
7/19/2026 at 10:00:24 AM
The parent was talking about it being a "landlords market" and wanting that to be changed. I asked how that might be possible.Improving advertisements to make them accurate, detailed, and directly-comparable is obviously a good thing. But does not change the market in favour of the tenants; the status-quo exists because of a lack of properties. That means no matter how bad the advert(s) tenants have to choose one available. If there were a surplus of properties then it would be a tenant's market.
(I'm in Europe!)
by stevekemp
7/19/2026 at 2:43:42 PM
Well, no, but it prevents fraud, which seems to be the bigger problem. A honest dominant force is better than a fraudulent dominant force.by amarant
7/19/2026 at 7:21:58 AM
Require advertisements for property to include the floor (and ground) area.by Symbiote
7/19/2026 at 5:51:14 PM
Advertising is already a pretty strict domain by necessity. We used to allow just about every lie under the sun in advertising, and it was universally bad. We systematically broke that down one by one over many decades, and we're still doing it! I mean, these days you can't even sell tobacco without saying "hey we're trying to kill you btw".This is a very well-trodden path, I think.
by preg_match
7/19/2026 at 7:44:03 AM
…and define rules for the measurement taken, like no stairs, count areas below roof sloping or outside on balconies etc. with a lower factor, exclude shared areas and cellars/attics, and so on.Not measuring correctly, not publishing the measurements, or publishing incorrect measurements outside an error margin gets counted as deception. Offer a simple reporting contact point to citizens to report landlords or offers that violate this regulation without a lawsuit.
by 9dev
7/19/2026 at 9:57:51 AM
While that would be useful it would not change it from a landlords-market - which is what the comment I replied to was about.by stevekemp
7/19/2026 at 8:12:49 AM
Why isn’t regulation and enforcement a solution? Why must the city be the ones to measure spaces?How it works in plenty of other countries…
by cr1895
7/19/2026 at 3:41:33 AM
Square footage is very much a lie in San Francisco as wellby culopatin
7/18/2026 at 11:01:57 PM
During the press conference he finished with a light joke that was something like “after all it’s meant to be Street Easy not Street Hard”. I assumed that was an app, your post unintentionally closed the loop for me!Agree AI modified listing make no sense to allow; regulation here is making up for platform failure.
by evolve2k
7/19/2026 at 6:54:17 AM
I tried searching for Flatbush on streeteasy.com and typing “Fla” into the neighborhood typeahead gave me: Chelsea
[blank]
Flatiron
Murray Hill
Flatbush
Chelsea
Chelsea
Chelsea
Murray Hill
by gorgoiler
7/19/2026 at 2:30:05 AM
Apartment hunting is an unpleasant chore I haven’t had to do since 2022. It hadn’t even occurred to me that AI slop would be the norm. I really have lived to see man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.by eloisius
7/19/2026 at 6:57:12 AM
The motivation is good, the implementation sucks.> requiring disclosure of AI-altered listings
So all the landlords will just disclose it and everyone will continue to be deceived. Just like every other picture on Meta platforms these days says it is AI-edited. That didn't make the feed any better; it's still a feed full of disclosed AI crap.
Why is this mayor so fucking chicken to just BAN AI-altered listings altogether? Have jail time and $1M fines for it. Fines big enough that you would risk losing your property altogether. We need more real leaders.
by qurren
7/19/2026 at 7:01:05 AM
Relax. This post is wildly aggressive for no reason.by idiotsecant
7/19/2026 at 9:10:21 AM
Choice of tone can communicate the same thing as 3-4 paragraphs of calmer discourse. Should we ban the use of tone? Personally I appreciated it and the frustration was palpable.by rjh29
7/19/2026 at 7:41:20 AM
I'm just tired of regulators realizing the right things to regulate but not implementing them correctly.Job postings must include a salary range? Who the fuck thought of that? Did they even ask a mathematician whether providing the min() and max() would be useful rather than mean(), median(), and std(), which is what the law really should require?
by qurren
7/19/2026 at 2:33:44 PM
How many people who are considering hiring their first few employees have an idea of what the minimum they’d likely pay and the maximum they’d likely pay for those new positions? Almost all.Now how many could even tell you the rough definition of standard deviation, let alone be able to give a value for it? Almost none.
As an applicant for a single opening, it’s not obvious that standard deviation is helpful either.
For normal people, I think that min and max are the two most practical and understandable measures.
by sokoloff
7/19/2026 at 5:37:37 PM
> As an applicant for a single openingYou're nitpicking at details. I'm sure you're smart enough to figure out how to write it so that this isn't an issue, but it seems you're more interested in "taking the other side" rather than thinking together about how to increase job compensation transparency.
Here's the problem with minimums: Companies posting ranges of $100K-$900K. Yes, I've seen them.
Here's a hint for everyone else: For small companies and single openings they can just aggregate mean/median/std by job level (E5 average, M1 average), or aggregate horizontally by team (HR average, ops average), whatever. Anything to increase transparency. If you're criticizing the math instead of building on the math, you're clearly against job transparency.
by qurren
7/19/2026 at 5:42:28 PM
I’m in favor of transparency (and consistently argue for that and act accordingly inside my own company). I’m against adding information that will confuse far more people than it will help.A company listing $100k-$900k per year for a role that’s not commissioned sales is exhibiting malicious compliance and should be dealt with directly as such rather than adding an additional nearly useless measure to somehow help smoke that out or avoid it.
by sokoloff
7/19/2026 at 6:47:38 PM
> Companies posting ranges of $100K-$900K.Yes, this is extremely Netflix. The "fix" for this is to mandate that they can no longer post an ad for engineers, but rather they have to post separate ads for each engineering role. Maybe this is better, maybe not. If a person applies to L4, are they allowed to be hired at L3 pay? Will that confuse people?
> For small companies and single openings
levels.fyi chooses not to publish some comp datapoints because there's too little data, which means publishing the data is tantamount to publishing an individual's compensation.
I hear you on the goal, but the details are tough.
by runako
7/19/2026 at 5:36:06 PM
we need less normal peopleby master-lincoln
7/19/2026 at 5:15:24 PM
For many tech jobs, that still wouldn’t help much. Salary alone is often half or less of total compensation. They’d also need to include stock grants and bonuses for the comparison to be meaningful.by sgerenser
7/19/2026 at 5:31:09 PM
Good point. Absolutely include mean, mean, std of stock grants, bonuses, and sign-on bonuses by law as well.by qurren
7/19/2026 at 6:41:21 PM
Caveat: I am pro more transparency in compensation data. But it's hard to do right.> mean(), median(), and std()
play this out a bit, and you'll quickly realize that there are infinite ways to game this. Something like levels.fyi only works because levels are a thing, and they are consistent across a relative handful of companies (most tech workers do not work at those companies).
And even levels.fyi won't publish salary data until there are enough data points at a company to prevent such publication from inadvertently publishing how much an individual person makes. This makes it less useful for (say) a senior looking for a job at a non-tech or small firm.
by runako
7/19/2026 at 5:22:52 AM
I wish there would be a similar thing for food as well. In my country (Brazil), food apps such as iFood are FULL of AI images. Worse is that iFood don't allow reviews to post pictures, so you get very blind asking it.Now Didi came (99) and Keeta, and they at least allow users to post reviews with pictures.
by vitorgrs
7/19/2026 at 12:47:33 AM
It's super annoying, but this is a total nothing burger because he doesn't actually have any power to do anything here.This has also been a problem long before AI with "virtually staged" apartments.
by Eridrus
7/19/2026 at 12:54:59 AM
> he doesn't actually have any power to do anything here.Landlords in nyc are doing business in nyc, which means the city can regulate them, does it not?
by kennywinker
7/19/2026 at 1:55:44 AM
The Mayor is not a dictator and can't just make up laws or regulations.He can probably get DCWP to engage in the normal rule making process, but at most this is probably going to get some AI disclosure somewhere, which is what we had for "virtually staged" lies.
by Eridrus
7/19/2026 at 2:02:03 AM
It’s directing the city to treat it as false advertising in existing law if I understand correctlyby weakfish
7/19/2026 at 2:11:23 AM
Right, which is why all we're going to get it a label saying that AI was used (or maybe landlords will try to fly through on the label of "virtually staged" that they've been using).Existing law doesn't have the authority to ban all AI images as inherently deceptive, and DCWP isn't going to be spending a bunch of time prosecuting individual images.
I agree with Mamdani that these images are often deceptive and misleading and sifting through the bullshit is annoying (and was annoying with virtually staged images too). It's just not going to go anywhere. The energy would be better spent on zoning and building code reform.
by Eridrus
7/19/2026 at 3:39:44 AM
> The energy would be better spent on zoning and building code reform.you've constructed a false dichotomy here.
the government of a city with ~8 million people is capable of doing multiple things at the same time.
by evil-olive
7/19/2026 at 2:26:27 AM
I take it you are a lawyer specializing in NY real estate law, then? Would be interesting to hear a more detailed analysis if so.by enraged_camel
7/19/2026 at 3:09:08 AM
The law applies to everyone, so it's reasonable for everyone to try to understand it, not just attorneys.Similarly, it's fine for people to have opinions on food, dental hygiene, and the tax code without being a chef, a dentist, and an accountant.
by valleyer
7/19/2026 at 5:35:28 AM
I thought it was illegal in new york (and probably the rest of the us) to give legal advice if not a lawyer.And in my understanding interpreting the law as opposed to just reciting it constitutes legal advice.
by rapidaneurism
7/19/2026 at 6:24:21 AM
No, merely analyzing or discussing the law generally does not constitute the practice of law. If it did, plenty of newspaper articles, law review journals (often written by law students), non-attorney legal aid, and legal pamphlets would be prohibited.If you want something more concrete, I googled it, and in New York, there appears to have been a case New York County Lawyers’ Association v. Dacey, in which Dacey wrote a book "How to Avoid Probate!", and the NYCA accepted a dissent in a lower court, stating in part:
Does the writing, publication, advertising, sale and distribution of "How To Avoid Probate!" constitute the unauthorized practice of law within the meaning of subdivision B of section 750? It cannot be claimed that the publication of a legal text which purports to say what the law is amounts to legal practice. And the mere fact that the principles or rules stated in the text may be accepted by a particular reader as a solution to his problem does not affect this.
"[I]t is a prized American privilege to speak one's mind, although not always with perfect good taste, on all public institutions" (Bridges v. California, 314 U. S. 252, 270)
by valleyer
7/19/2026 at 6:17:11 AM
Pot, meet kettle.by kennywinker
7/19/2026 at 3:00:43 AM
I am honestly so surprised that everyone on HN is so naive that they take political statements like this at face value.Politicians routinely say they will do things they do not have the authority to do, and it's often very important to understanding what will actually happen to have some understanding of what authorities are available to them, or at the very least ask Google/LLMs about it.
by Eridrus
7/19/2026 at 3:11:12 AM
[dead]by horusborus
7/19/2026 at 8:22:52 AM
Ah, so you aren’t a lawyer then.by enraged_camel
7/19/2026 at 3:22:29 AM
I hope they don't figure out virtually all housing is photographed with those weird lenses and the colors are enhanced digitallyby sidewndr46
7/19/2026 at 3:32:11 AM
What do you call a reverse slippery-slope argument? “All images are edited, therefore ai editing is ok.”Degrees of alteration matter, pretending ai images are the same as color retouching is dumb.
by kennywinker
7/19/2026 at 4:31:13 PM
I guess for me, the question is how do you define each degree? If I say something like "Gemini, make the colors pop in my photos!" is that OK?by sidewndr46
7/20/2026 at 3:05:38 AM
Idk, what happens when you do that? Does it apply traditional color filters and tweaks, or does it process the photo thru generative ai potentially altering it in ways beyond what you intended?by kennywinker
7/19/2026 at 3:17:38 AM
Yes I'm sure he's talking about disclosure. California has this law state-wide.by TurdF3rguson
7/19/2026 at 3:36:24 AM
I agree, we're going to get a little warning label, just like the "virtually staged" labels that are already there and nothing of consequence will actually change. That is why I say this is a nothing burger.by Eridrus
7/19/2026 at 3:48:39 AM
But that label does serve a purpose. Plenty of people don't know that there's even such a thing as that.by TurdF3rguson
7/19/2026 at 4:24:59 AM
I strongly disagree. This is just the Politician's Fallacy.I keep harping on about the "virtual staging" that real estate agents have been doing for a decade that is equally deceptive and annoying and already gets labeled, and the labels don't actually help because you're still left trying to decipher what is real yourself.
If they wanted to actually do something useful, they'd get together with the legislature and pass a law saying that real estate listings need to come with floor plans that are accurate within X% under the penalty of some sort of fine with a private right of action. But passing laws is hard and faces opposition.
by Eridrus
7/19/2026 at 5:54:31 AM
It ultimately won't matter because they can show no photo at all and people who are desperate will show up for it.It doesn't really touch the issue of affordable housing so there's not much to cheer for here.
by TurdF3rguson
7/19/2026 at 12:55:22 AM
Why are you so certain of this? Oh it was a problem before so we should just keep doing nothing even though it will almost certainly become exponentially worse with AI? Love this plan.by thenayr
7/19/2026 at 3:10:55 AM
I am so certain of this because I was not born yesterday and this is not my first time paying attention to (NYC) politics.Politician makes a grand statement they do not have the authority to meaningfully act on to get headlines, DCWP issues a weak sauce disclosure rule and the news cycle moves on because this is not actually anybody's priority.
by Eridrus