I'm honestly not a fan of this, despite how well intentioned it may seem (road to hell?)
AirBnB is honestly trying too hard with this PR move, it boggles my mind that shareholders don't reign in corporate stunts like this.
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#12Wouldn't it be easier to make Afghanistan a 51st state?
And let 'em keep their culture and religion locally instead of repossessing them?
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#13I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
honestly lol
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oddly enough, I don't think the owners would volunteer properties for that.
There's an idea: If you want to convert a dwelling to short stay accommodation you have to also make it available for x days per year for crisis accommodation.
Such contortions to require that the homeless be housed while banning sufficient construction of homes to house everyone.
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#15Does this settle the argument of whether or not Airbnb displaces local residents and drives up rents? Isn't that an ongoing humanitarian crisis caused by Airbnb?
Is it not fun when companies big and small grab headlines by cynical offers like these. Presumably, once the PR stunt part dies, someone else is going to pay for them? Who I wonder will be that generous donor.
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#16I'm honestly not a fan of this, despite how well intentioned it may seem (road to hell?) AirBnB is honestly trying too hard with this PR move, it boggles my mind that shareholders don't reign in corporate stunts like this.
Who cares? People are getting shelter, if even for a little bit. This is honestly the most boring kind of cynicism because you've offered no real critique and no consideration of the people who have been forcefully displaced and can now have a place to stay.
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#17I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
doesn't really make sense, this is a temporary spike of people that need some kind of transitional housing. Really the governments problem, but fine if AirBnB see some value in helping out.
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#18Wouldn't it be easier to make Afghanistan a 51st state? And let 'em keep their culture and religion locally instead of repossessing them?
> Wouldn't it be easier to make Afghanistan a 51st state?
That's probably an viable option last century (see: Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico), but colonialism/imperialism is out of style right now so it would definitely not be easy to do that.
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#19I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
The Airbnb is a solution to a temporary problem, which is that there is a lot of Afghan coming to America and need temporary shelter while they find something else.
The homelessness problem needs a more long-term solution than 25k shelters for a limited time. You can read about Toronto leasing hotels for the homeless if you want to read more about some solutions that are being worked on, for example.
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#20I think there are about 500K Homeless in America, would it make sense to first offer about 20K of them some free housing?
If you think this is some gotcha (you can't help with Afghan refugees during a crisis until you've solved homelessness?) then you never cared about the homeless in the first place, and are using them as a pawn when it's useful to dunk on the middle east.