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Airbnb Announces Its Plan To House 100,000 People In Need (backchannel.com)
New submitter mirandakatz writes: Airbnb has just unveiled its Open Homes Platform, a home-sharing site for hosts motivated by goodwill instead of profits -- and for guests motivated by need rather than wanderlust. Specifically, Airbnb is going to begin by connecting refugees with hosts in Canada, France, Greece, and the United States. Ultimately, refugees will be just one group that the site aims to help: Site visitors can also nominate other groups of people for temporary placements, and the platform will expand to include them eventually. At Backchannel, Jessi Hempel dives into the home-sharing platform's latest effort, and places it in the context of the company's broader business strategy.
until it's not
At first I thought this was a gracious gesture by a corporation, until I realized that AirBnB isn't really offering anything at all. How many properties will they be offering on their own? How many people have an extra property to volunteer to someone who may not even feel the need to use a bathroom?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
You want junkies and welfare people living in your house? I didn't think so.
refugees so I can be an accessory to ISIS with AirBnB pointing to there EULA sticking be with the legal bill.
June 7th the day that will live infamously.
To not live up to what they preach.
Really! Airbnb should buy their ticket back home. I know the democrat pansies won't admit it, but these 'refugees' are nothing but trouble. I wonder who really benefited by letting these people in.
Host your own terrorist program
We have unemployed, homeless people right here that need housing...
Wait until your refugee guest suite is occupied by gypsies... as soon as you turn your back they'll steal everything you've got. Only thing worse would be fucking Muslim gypsies.
Mirandakatz has done nothing but spam Backchannel "articles" since that account was created, and a couple of them have lurched their way to the front page before. Post their clickbait if you must, editors, but don't be dishonest about their submitter. (Or maybe you were duped...I can see that too.)
Verizon is doing its part to fill 1000 of those slots.
I RFTA and thought that this was a nice program allowing people to pay it forwards and then I read the comments.
Wow. Not much love or sympathy in this group.
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Far too many people can be found wandering around cities at night without places to go, and that leaves them at the mercy of dope dealers and others who are looking to profit from their misery.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
there are many people that are in desperate need of help, the problem is identifying the legitimate ones. I would actually trust refugees more than most of the local homeless but even then after seeing what happened to friends I would not want to try the lottery even on refugees. friends helped out a family living in a car by providing them rent at a way way below market rates so they could have a roof over their heads. 6 weeks later the house looked like a garbage dump inside and out and it took another 3 months to finally evict them, all up they estimate their good will cost them in excess of $50k, they won't make that mistake again.
for my entire adult life, so you're forgive me if I'm just a wee bit too cynical not to question the motives of a company at the forefront of the gig economy (who's business model contributes to me being unable to afford to buy a home).
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I'm willing to help. I'll buy a homeless person a bus ticket there.
Have gnu, will travel.
"Are you a terrorist?"
"Yes! Awe, you caught me!!!"
"Get outta here, you joker."
"Allahu ackbar!"
"Yeah, yeah..."
Sounds nuts? Not as nutty as this fantasy land bullshit. There is a fucking reason we have borders. Because not everyone likes the same thing as everyone else. Isn't that what made it so appealing to all these celebs that said they'd pack up and move if Trump got elected in the first place? Wait, did any of them leave? Fuck no they didn't. Fantasy land bullshitters.
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The Bible is like Wikipedia: written by a bunch of people and verifiable by questionable sources.
What's the next part of the business plan? As long as you house them and feed them you can make them work 21 hour days for you?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
Then pick from the Shia Muslims, the Christians, the Jews, or the gays, that are fleeing those countries to escape persecution. No one is forcing you to accept Sunni Muslims.
As always.
ALLAHU ACKBAR!
*cuts owner's head off*
That illustrates to the none-American readers how Trump happened.
How many of the BNB employees (any paid member) are all-in on this? How many of you that think this is a good idea are ready to open your own homes and doors? Why is this about "refugees".. much of which are unwilling to meld to our country's traditions. I'll agree with many posts here.. the last 3 years of resettled refugees were all about gaining a foothold for home-grown radicalized terrorists. If you doubt this then you've obviously not watched the news for what has been happing in the UK. Here is an idea. how about AirBNB reaches out to the homeless U.S. military veterans first... followed by other already fully documented citizens that don't have a home. Only when every other available room has been fully filled.. should we think about opening our doors to people who aren't already in our country.
Peace.
Euro govts already force them to. Seizing homes to do so and arresting anyone who dares speak out against snackbars snackbarring. This is like saying "let's make a site where we can help you host war criminals and escaped convicts with murderous pasts. Let them sleep on your sofa until they behead your children for wearing skimpy clothes to the beach
I'm very serious: what a great idea!
I'm so tired of the progressive crowd saying "let's you take in a few million refugees", but somehow never in their neighborhoods. So this is the chance for the progressives to put their guest rooms where their mouths are.
I hope that this is done fairly, i.e., Airbnb doesn't just front for housing that was already designated for refugees. If so, then we will see just how many liberals really practice what they preach.
I predict that the offers of rooms will be very sparse, but I am willing to be proven wrong.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
How exactly are you going to tell them apart except for trusting they are who/what they say they are?
Also telling them apart and filtering based on religion beliefs is grounds for discrimination and a nice lawsuit thrown your way. Either way, you lose.
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Why not all of them?
I don't want Jihadi's in my house. They will not be grateful, and may kill you.
You want us to pay for the door the SWAT broke down and the bullet holes in the wall? Think again. And before you do, be grateful that we're so gracious as to not charge you with housing terror suspects!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Umm... how do you identify a gay, Jewish Christian Shia Muslim? People rarely have that stamped to their forehead. And ... well, you might be new to this world, and this might be hard to swallow, but people lie to get what they want.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Really? Wow, where does this happen? I mean, outside your mind (where you obviously also are).
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Good luck with that. Assyrian Christians and Yezidis are basically victims of genocide at this point but Trudeau and the liberal party in Canada have taken the opposite approach from the previous administration and reversed course on accepting them.
Apologies for replying to my own thread but I do have to acknowledge that that US position on this to this point (not sure in 2017) has actually been worse. Ban on non-Muslims: http://www.newsweek.com/us-bar...
It creates a dependent population which is a potential health hazard and makes a costly mess.
The Dutch politician Geert Wilders was put on trial for "criminally insulting Muslims", among other ridiculous things.
Really? Wow, where does this happen? I mean, outside your mind (where you obviously also are).
In Germany and Sweden, that's where, sport:
"German nurse shocked after being forced out of flat to make way for refugees"
https://www.rt.com/news/316568-germany-nurse-eviction-refugees/
"Second German woman evicted from her home to make way for refugees"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/11902296/Second-German-woman-evicted-from-her-home-to-make-way-for-refugees.html
"Familjen tvingas att lämna sitt hem"
https://mitti.se/nyheter/familjen-tvingas-att-lamna-sitt-hem/
Sucks.. but at the end of the day last thing you need is local laws kicking in and you are unable to remove the people from the property. I say great idea... as long as it's not my house and not my family at financial risk.
Will they pay for it by laying off people? Or outsourcing jobs to Elbonia?
Or will they just force people to do it for free or else they lose their privilege to be on AirBNB?
I'd say all of the above.
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How appropriate.
as a large scale ex-landlord i can tell you this is going to go swell. on a positive side it will teach liberals (as mostly unsuspecting liberals will offer their pads) that most of the immigrants are lying, uneducated, primitive folks that always cause more trouble than they are worth. always.
Haven't you heard? Focusing on the Syrians that would actually qualify for genuine political refugee status is a violation of the Establishment clause.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
So they are creating a database of refugees.
That may be open to all kinds of abuse.
Another one: https://www.jihadwatch.org/201...
There are any number of things that you might ask for to prove Christian origins. In the Anglophone world, for example, an old family Bible. Pictures of you in your Easter clothes. Documentation of baptism. A wedding invitation where the venue is listed as a Christian church, with a marriage license signed by a Christian minister. A recitation of the Lord's Prayer or Psalm 23. All can be faked, but it's not trivial to do so.
Now all the people AirBnB have indirectly made homeless through local rents being jacked up, by AirBnB making it easy to illegally convert rentals into short-term-lets, will be able to rely on the charity of the greedy people who have exploited this opportunity in the first place. Great plan, guys - nothing cynical in this PR move at all.
And he was sentenced to housing Muslims in his home and let them behead his children? Now that's what I call cruel and unusual punishment!
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Ah, those. Yes, if you're renting from the city and they find it more useful to give the flat to someone else, you get evicted. The solution is to rent from a private owner. Yes, this is a bit more expensive and you might have a hard time financing a 1000 sqft flat in the middle of the town as a single tenant on retirement money, but at least they can't simply kick you out as they please.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
You've moved the goal posts when presented with information that you didn't think existed; how surprising. According to your "logic", it's ok to displace citizens because it's more "useful" to give their places to "refugees".
Here's an example of someone's private property being invaded:
"Police Force 80-Year-Old Italian Hotel Owner to House African Migrants"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymK5R9PeAeo