Mr. McKee said that similar conditions exist in the suburbs, but that no data is available to track the stock of regulated rentals outside the city.
The survey also included some numbers on the expense of the shows, including an operating figure for the last season of $2.5 million, not including what IMG spent on vendors and rentals outside of the Lincoln Center neighborhood.
The critics point out, for instance, that Congress does not ask the same of other recipients of federal assistance, such as those with Section 8 vouchers, in which the government provides assistance for rentals outside of public housing projects.
There are houses of all sizes and descriptions and few, if any, legal rentals outside a city housing project, the 488-unit Richmond Terrace Houses on Jersey Street, which was built in 1964.
Her proposal would allow current short-term rentals, even those outside the designated areas, to continue accepting guests as long as the homeowner has been paying the local lodgers' taxes, but it would restrict future rentals outside of approved areas on the island.
That could also mean opening up the service for rentals outside the U.S., essentially making Spinlister available all over the world.
