Discrimination
January 11, 2017
enting out rooms on Airbnb has become a reliable income stream for home-owners across the world, but according to a new study released today, hosts from ethnic minority groups may receive less money for their listings than other hosts…
Fairbnb News
January 11, 2017
Residents put some of the blame for that on home-sharing websites like Airbnb. They say these sites allow landlords to fill their apartments with lucrative short-term rentals instead of more affordable long-term ones…
Horror Stories
January 11, 2017
Where people go, scammers follow, so it’s no surprise to find the sharing economy being targeted…
Featured Story
January 11, 2017
The official complaint arrived at his front door in May, more than a year after Santa Monica, California, voted to ban the short-term home rentals flooding its small beachside community. Shatford knew the rules but had chosen to ignore them, continuing to list two properties for short stays on Airbnb. He found the city’s ban […]
Discrimination
January 11, 2017
Black and Asian homeowners get less rent on Airbnb than white people with similar properties in the same area, a study has found…
Fairbnb News
January 11, 2017
Airbnb has capitulated to the demands of lawmakers over its operations in New York City, the company’s largest market in the United States, agreeing to drop a lawsuit in which it was pushing back against a newly passed state law that it said could have hurt its business…
Fairbnb News
January 11, 2017
Home-sharing firm Airbnb has struck agreements with London and Amsterdam to limit the number of nights that hosts can offer short-term rentals in those cities…
Featured Story
January 11, 2017
On May 1, Berlin effectively banned short-stay vacation apartments. In a city where affordable housing is hard to come by, the feeling was that Airbnb and similar platforms were hogging too much space, taking what could be well over 10,000 homes off the regular rental market…
Horror Stories
January 11, 2017
The first floor balcony of the flat collapsed in July, causing them to fall two storeys. The group’s solicitor said the website has refused requests to provide financial assistance…
Horror Stories
January 11, 2017
A man who fell to his death from a Bourbon Street balcony in the early morning hours of Nov. 19 was among a group renting a property through the short-term rental website Airbnb, and his fall might have been caused by a rotted railing, according to a New Orleans Police Department report…