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Peer-to-peer accommodations leader Airbnb on Sunday set a goal for its hosts to house as many as 100,000 people in need during the next five years and established a social-media hashtag #weaccept.
Airbnb also pledged to donate $4 million during the next four years to the International Rescue Committee.
“We’ll start with refugees, disaster survivors, and relief workers, though we want to accommodate many more types of displaced people over time,” the company said in a post signed by company co-founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk.
The company provided hosts a link to a page enabling them to volunteer a home for those in need or suggest a cause in which temporary housing would be required.
Airbnb further publicized the effort with a television advertisement during Sunday’s Super Bowl broadcast, saying with on-screen captions that “we all belong,” and that “the world is more beautiful the more you accept.”
Airbnb representatives haven’t responded to requests from Travel Weekly for details on whether the company would reimburse hosts for providing free housing to guests deemed to be most in need of short-term accommodations.
The company has been vocal about its opposition to the temporary travel ban President Donald Trump invoked on Jan. 27 against seven predominantly Muslim countries (that ban has since been lifted). Chesky on Jan. 28 tweeted that Airbnb would provide “free housing to refugees and anyone not allowed in the US.”
Sourse: travelweekly.com
