Re:Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone n...
by ivan_gammel on Sunday January 29, 2017 @06:27AM
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Looks like it will be something different from what you already have. Housing is necessary for those who are outside USA and cannot return home and for those who's being deported, which means it has worldwide scale, not limited geography as before, right?
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Re:Airbnb is providing free housing to refugees and anyone n...
by chandsie on Sunday January 29, 2017 @03:52PM
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Yes, a lot of people have been working overnight and still working hard on putting out a slightly different way to volunteer for this service. As you point out it obviously has different challenges and opportunities than a natural disaster. We're working with organizations on the ground helping folks already to identify where we can help most. There's also work to prevent the inevitable attempts at abusing this system. And finally there's also work being done to try to help folks in areas we might not have any or enough volunteer hosts.