Airbnb Wants to Help Renters Share Their Space
Airbnb wants renters, and not just homeowners, to be able to become hosts on its platform. The company announced that it is boosting efforts to work with state and local governments to advocate for short-term rental rules that don't exclude renters from leveraging their space to earn extra money. “A lot of the early laws that were made limited short-term rental to homeownership,” Theo Yedinsky, the vice president of public policy at Airbnb, said. And this mission is part of Airbnb's roots, Yedinsky added, referring to how Airbnb was first created back in 2007 when two of its co-founders couldn't afford to pay rent in San Francisco and took in some guests on air mattresses who were in town for a design conference.
CNN (04/12/24) Catherine Thorbecke
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