Fairbnb News
September 15, 2016
BOCA RATON, Fla. (CBS12) — Residents in an East Boca neighborhood are turning to CBS12 News for action. They say the city is not enforcing the law when it comes to rental properties…
Featured Story
September 15, 2016
While the City of Vancouver announced it’s moving forward with the empty homes tax, council will be moving forward to look at ways to regulate short term rentals through sites like AirBnB…
Fairbnb News
September 15, 2016
As America grapples with disruptions wrought by the new “sharing economy” that has seen everyone become a taxi driver for hire and homes become hotels, a Pasadena city committee is addressing the explosion of Airbnb properties in Pasadena…
Fairbnb News
September 15, 2016
Share Better SF, a coalition of housing activists, landlords, a hotel union and a hotel trade group opposed to vacation rentals in private homes, is launching a bus-shelter ad campaign on Thursday taking aim at Airbnb for suing its hometown and for not abiding by local laws….
Fairbnb News
September 15, 2016
As Airbnb, the $30 billion private accommodation renting portal, continues to mature and very slowly inch its way to an IPO, it is adding more ways to bring in more properties and hosts to its platform…
Featured Story
September 15, 2016
Amid the cluster of secondary suite debates, and far from another Uber storm, is a new contender for a council time suck: Airbnb…
Discrimination
September 15, 2016
Faced with criticism that it wasn’t doing enough to stem incidents of racial bias, Airbnb recentlyannounced a plan to enhance diversity within the company and improve the experience of users who feel they’ve been discriminated against. …
Fairbnb News
September 15, 2016
In an area with an overall rental vacancy rate of only 3.7 percent, some critics worry that a certain type of Airbnb rental is eating up housing that should be available for New Yorkers rather than tourists. (Francis Carr Jr. / The Brooklyn Ink)…
Fairbnb News
September 15, 2016
San Francisco is poised to increase registration fees for short-term rental hosts fivefold, to $250 every two years, The Chronicle has learned. Coincidentally, Airbnb, the leading vacation rental company, is mounting an ad campaign in its hometown to buttress its frequent contention that most hosts are regular people making ends meet…
Fairbnb News
September 15, 2016
The 60-second commercial opens with Reneia, a Central City Airbnb host, who touts the benefits of additional income generated by renting space in her shotgun home to tourists and how it helps fund her animal rescue efforts….