Airbnb Non-profit Provides Housing for Disaster, Pandemic Workers
Home-sharing giant Airbnb will enlist its global network of millions of participants to help house aid workers and health care staff working to fight COVID-19..Its planned program will find housing for workers who before the pandemic would have stayed in large-scale locations like gyms and now are staying in hotels, said Katherine Woo, executive director of a new non-profit, Airbnb that will oversee it. Airbnb has 4 million hosts who rent out their homes through the online network in 100,000 cities worldwide. Emergency management agencies as well as guests themselves are finding AirBnB type of accommodation more appealing, where a family can have the whole place to themselves, feel comfortable and have access to a kitchen. The program will help arrange free or reduced cost housing for international aid workers responding to disasters and to medical personnel engaged in coronavirus testing and vaccine work, she said.
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