On a recent trip, I hurriedly rented an Airbnb private home. Only after I was there did I notice that it was loaded with a slew of indoor surveillance cameras. It got me thinking. What’s the legality of this? Is there anything I can do about it?

Airbnb is a fast growing platform that allows travellers to rent out an apartment or room from a local for a few days while visiting a city. But while this is handy for travellers looking for affordable accommodation it has started to cause other problems in some areas.

But a massive spike in listings in recent months has prompted concerns that people offering rooms and houses don’t have to follow the same quality controls as commercial hospitality providers.

The quiet neighbourhood of Meadowvale has been living with a noisy invader — a wild and hopping Airbnb party house.

A MAN claims that a man refused to rent him his property purely because of his
skin colour.

When Greg Selden, 25, from Virginia, USA, made an enquiry about booking a
house on Airbnb, he was told there was no availability.

Airbnb is facing a storm of criticism after several consumers complained of racial discrimination from some of the home-sharing service app’s hosts.

Public Advocate Letitia James has accused Airbnb of enabling racial discrimination by failing to address “mounting” evidence that black users earn less than white users on the platform, and elicit fewer responses both as hosts and guests.

Let’s set the scene: you’ve booked a room with your partner on Airbnb. It’s a penthouse with a hot tub and you’re super excited. You’ve had a long day, you’re exhausted, in need of a shower and turn up to the booking only to find out the owner is SHOOTING A PORNO IN THE APARTMENT. Wait, what?

When Yuanming He rented out his townhome on Airbnb two weeks ago, the Old Dominion University student who booked it promised there would be no parties and no more than three people on site.

A vacation rental project in Lincoln Park is raising questions about background checks in the age of the shared economy.