Translation: "AirBnB looks for cheap positive publicity".
Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
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Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
#92No they are not. Please correct the title.
Surely the tweet means that Airbnb are paying the fee that otherwise would be paid by guests? We only have the tweet to go on, so what makes you think otherwise?
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#93Airbnb IS NOT providing free housing. Airbnb isn't paying for housing refugees. Potential hosts can offer free housing, which just makes Airbnb like Couchsurfing. So Airbnb isn't paying for anything here or even giving anything for free. People who really want to help can use CouchSurfing web site instead of promoting a for profit business. If Airbnb offered free housing it would mean they would actually pay the host…
How do you know this?
Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
#94Are 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?
> Why would it be more of a problem with refugees than other, paying guests?
Most AirBnB guests are financially secure, have a vested interest in not damaging your property, and aren't likely to be scared/stressed/traumatized.
Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this controversial for a company who wants to look good to everyone around the world? Perhaps it's controversial if you think Airbnb only cares about the U.S. market, however if you look more holistically then it's a tiny majority who might be bothered by this.
Let me count the ways: 1. It is controversial to employees who support Trump. 2. It is controversial to investors who support Trump. 3. It is controversial to clients who support Trump, and now might stop using AirBnB. 4. They are taking public stance against the president of the US who is known to have a vindictive streak (and his businesses are their competition). How motivated will Trump be to sign legislation tha…
In a time when national agencies (like the Forrest Park department and NASA) are operating clandestine tweet accounts against Trump policies etc, it's not that controversial.
Like gay rights in the 2010s (which no company would touch with a ten-feet pole in the seventies and eighties, but they make grandiose stands now that it's safe except in some backwater redneck communities), it's just the fashionable thing to do.
It's not even like the Vietnam war protests in the 60s, when mostly the young and alternative press were in favor and it was an actual risk.
Now you're on the side with mainstream press, corporate giants, most of Hollywood and show biz (even country acts), major TV channels, etc.
Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is this controversial for a company who wants to look good to everyone around the world? Perhaps it's controversial if you think Airbnb only cares about the U.S. market, however if you look more holistically then it's a tiny majority who might be bothered by this.
Let me count the ways: 1. It is controversial to employees who support Trump. 2. It is controversial to investors who support Trump. 3. It is controversial to clients who support Trump, and now might stop using AirBnB. 4. They are taking public stance against the president of the US who is known to have a vindictive streak (and his businesses are their competition). How motivated will Trump be to sign legislation tha…
It could be controversial to investors who are hoping for an IPO in the next 4 years.
Is it controversial to anyone else? Even someone who supports Trump's executive order may consider it reasonable that refugees should be housed somewhere.
What I consider controversial is backing a candidate who actively helped create the current Middle-East crises, supporting the first Iraq War and then the overthrow of the Syrian government.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stunt, then, as AirBNB isn't providing any free housing. You're just going to browbeat people who offered "housing to displaced neighbors and relief workers" to underwrite "your" provision of housing to people who are neither neighbors nor relief workers.
Let's be clear: if you are taking a public stand against the president of the United State who is known to be vindictive, you are taking a stand. ALL OF THEM. It is never just a stunt, because a stunt means there's no risk.
Umm... generally stunts are known for their risk...
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#98I'm reading around here that Airbnb's contribution in this matter is limited to providing the infrastructure to volunteer hosts for free, which is still good. My question is: do they also provide insurance to these hosts? I mean if one of the volunteer hosts suffers damages in her/his property of 10'000$ hosting refugees, will airbnb cover it? Genuinely curious, not judging here.
Right here: https://www.airbnb.com/guarantee
The $1,000,000 Host Guarantee
Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
#99Airbnb IS NOT providing free housing. Airbnb isn't paying for housing refugees. Potential hosts can offer free housing, which just makes Airbnb like Couchsurfing. So Airbnb isn't paying for anything here or even giving anything for free. People who really want to help can use CouchSurfing web site instead of promoting a for profit business. If Airbnb offered free housing it would mean they would actually pay the host…
How do you know this?
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Re: Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US
#100No they are not. Please correct the title.
Surely the tweet means that Airbnb are paying the fee that otherwise would be paid by guests? We only have the tweet to go on, so what makes you think otherwise?
An employee on this thread linked to their Disasters Program, where this even will appear, and which works like that.