The air could soon be going out of Airbnb.
The home-sharing service and its competitors face severe downsizing under a bill signed Monday by Mayor de Blasio that requires the companies to turn over detailed data about their hosts.
The new law, which takes effect in February 2019, will provide the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement with names and addresses of hosts, the type of dwellings being rented, the frequency of rentals, the rental income and — in some cases — the account name and number where hosts receive their rental fees.
Fines for home-sharing services start at $1,500 for each incomplete or inaccurate submission or 12 months’ worth of the fees collected for that listing, whichever is greater.