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Ghaziabad society protests against Airbnb-style rentals
Residents of Vaibhav Khand Windsor Park in Ghaziabad protested against short-term rentals, alleging safety concerns, disturbances and unregistered occupants. They submitted a joint complaint to the District Magistrate, Police Commissioner, GDA, Nagar…
Residents of Vaibhav Khand Windsor Park in Ghaziabad protested against short-term rentals, alleging safety concerns, disturbances and unregistered occupants. They submitted a joint complaint to the District Magistrate, Police Commissioner, GDA, Nagar Nigam and Tourism Department. Protesters claimed flats in Towers A and B were rented on a daily or hourly basis without police verification or required registration.
Residents also alleged late-night disturbances, alcohol consumption in parked vehicles, verbal abuse, physical fights, and lewd comments. An FIR involving a woman found injured in a flat is pending investigation. The society's RWA was accused of lacking a clear policy and failing to act. Under the UP Homestay and B&B Policy 2025, owners can register one to six rooms for homestays, but must continue living in the property themselves.
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The protest highlights a growing friction between the short-term rental economy and residential by-laws in NCR towns. Most apartment societies in Uttar Pradesh operate under a registered RWA that can frame its own occupancy rules, but these often clash with state-level tourism policies designed to boost homestay registrations. The UP Homestay and B&B Policy 2025 requires the owner to reside on the premises, a condition that is effectively unenforceable once a flat is rented out through an online platform. The District Magistrate's committee, which oversees registrations, will now have to decide whether to enforce the residency clause strictly or allow societies to opt out of the policy through their own covenants. The next test is whether the Ghaziabad administration issues a clarification on the policy's applicability to multi-storey apartment buildings.
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