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Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by ssijak »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #38
ssijak wrote: post #36

Why have not you done that before for existing homeless people or other people in need? This just smells like ugly marketing scheme. I mean, it is good if someone in need is helped, but why now and why that wording and scope to only refugees?

That's dumb argument, sorry. Disaster relief is temporary and help is provided to people who suffer from external circumstances. Housing for homeless is a daily job for the government and it is different, significantly bigger problem, for which the solution is not affordable for any single private organization or person. Private organizations have limited resources and they have the right to choose whom to support fi…

Well, US gov (Clinton and Obama) created this refugees in the first place. They are all coming from the areas that this administrations ruined in one way or another.

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by detaro »

ssijak wrote: post #36

Why have not you done that before for existing homeless people or other people in need? This just smells like ugly marketing scheme. I mean, it is good if someone in need is helped, but why now and why that wording and scope to only refugees?

> other people in need

they have done that before, e.g. during hurricane Mathew. "Airbnb is brokering free housing" probably would be a more accurate phrasing, since it is obviously the hosts providing the housing. Airbnb just provides their platform for free.

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by ivan_gammel »

ssijak wrote: post #41
ivan_gammel wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's dumb argument, sorry. Disaster relief is temporary and help is provided to people who suffer from external circumstances. Housing for homeless is a daily job for the government and it is different, significantly bigger problem, for which the solution is not affordable for any single private organization or person. Private organizations have limited resources and they have the right to choose whom to support fi…

Well, US gov (Clinton and Obama) created this refugees in the first place. They are all coming from the areas that this administrations ruined in one way or another.

That's a good reason, why US government and taxpayers, not individual corporate entities, should take responsibility and handle this systematically instead of banning the entry.

(btw, somehow you forgot Bush with Iraq and Afghanistan)

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by ahoka »

nollbit wrote: post #16
wyager wrote: post #10

Are they planning to force people on the platform to host refugees (paid, obviously)? I can see several practical problems with that; taking people from their home to a place where they do not speak the language or know the local culture and just dropping them off in standard residential housing can't end well for anybody. This also can't help AirBnB's case when it comes to NIMBYism.

Why would it be more of a problem with refugees than other, paying guests? Afaik, most US citizens staying at Japanese AirBnB's (for example) do not speak Japanese nor know the local culture. Do you think that's a problem as well? When I stayed at an AirBnB in Italy I knew nothing about the local culture nor spoke the language, nobody thought that was an issue. Or is this just, you know, racism?

Muslim is not a race.

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

#45

Post by jim-jim-jim »

chandsie wrote: post #24
edoceo wrote: post #2

Stunt or Stand? So much noise right now it's hard to tell. Hope Time demonstrates this as a genuine move. BigCo with lots of PR weight can really keep the story at the top (or push it over the top)

I'm an employee, so for what it's worth, this isn't something out of the blue. Airbnb has a disaster response program that gets activated all the time for natural disasters and other tragedies - https://www.airbnb.com/disaster-response We're choosing to activate it in response to the executive order because it goes directly against our company mission to let people belong anywhere. I'm sure PR was part of the decisio…

Wow this is beautiful.

It's capitalism with a mission. A mission to let people belong. Anywhere.

Now I know why your company fights so hard to skirt regulation and taxation. Because it would impede that mission (to let people belong (anywhere.))

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

#46

Post by exolymph »

beisner wrote: post #40
ssijak wrote: post #36

Why have not you done that before for existing homeless people or other people in need? This just smells like ugly marketing scheme. I mean, it is good if someone in need is helped, but why now and why that wording and scope to only refugees?

I don't think you're giving them enough credit here. I'd wager that a lot of these recently-announced initiatives have strong grass-roots origins, meaning that employee sentiment was the primary motivator (rather than PR bandwagoning). Sure, it would be great if they had thought about this earlier or created a broader program. But you could say the same thing about the public - why only now do we, individual citizens…

> I'd wager that a lot of these recently-announced initiatives have strong grass-roots origins, meaning that employee sentiment was the primary motivator (rather than PR bandwagoning).

Why not both?

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by forgetsusername »

flashman wrote: post #23

Airbnb should run a promotion for free nights at hosts who live within a mile of a Trump property. He'd notice if someone was trying to take business off him, even nominally.

>Airbnb should run a promotion for free nights at hosts who live within a mile of a Trump property.

How much longer do you think AirBnB's regulation flouting would last if they went to war with the President?

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

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Post by vacri »

ssijak wrote: post #41
ivan_gammel wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's dumb argument, sorry. Disaster relief is temporary and help is provided to people who suffer from external circumstances. Housing for homeless is a daily job for the government and it is different, significantly bigger problem, for which the solution is not affordable for any single private organization or person. Private organizations have limited resources and they have the right to choose whom to support fi…

Well, US gov (Clinton and Obama) created this refugees in the first place. They are all coming from the areas that this administrations ruined in one way or another.

You might want to scroll back your timeline a bit. It was Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003 that created these refugees. Expensive bit of election-securing that.

Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US

#50

Post by [deleted] »

chandsie wrote: post #24
edoceo wrote: post #2

Stunt or Stand? So much noise right now it's hard to tell. Hope Time demonstrates this as a genuine move. BigCo with lots of PR weight can really keep the story at the top (or push it over the top)

I'm an employee, so for what it's worth, this isn't something out of the blue. Airbnb has a disaster response program that gets activated all the time for natural disasters and other tragedies - https://www.airbnb.com/disaster-response We're choosing to activate it in response to the executive order because it goes directly against our company mission to let people belong anywhere. I'm sure PR was part of the decisio…

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