Summit on new regs for Airbnb

ALBANY — Anti-Airbnb forces from around the world are set to meet in New York City Monday to discuss ways to better regulate home-sharing websites.

Dubbed “Reformbnb,” the international conference will include political, academic and hotel industry officials.

It represents the latest escalation by the hotel industry and affordable-housing activists against the popular home-sharing site and comes at a time when the state and city, as well as cities worldwide, have sought to rein in such sites.

Among those set to appear are city Controller Scott Stringer, New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, London Assemblyman Tom Copley as well as government officials from Barcelona and Chile.

Hotel industry officials from the U.S., Europe, Japan, South America and Australia are also set to attend the conference that kicks off Monday morning at a E. 48th St. hotel.

The conference’s goal, according to an advisory, is “to hear from these leaders about how their cities are being impacted by Airbnb, what steps they’re taking toward regulation and enforcement, and to share best practices, the latest data, advocacy/organizing tools and build consensus toward a coordinated global effort for more proactive and data-driven enforcement and regulatory regimes.”