All the headlines from our Airbnb Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 24 2016 // Airbnb Inc. is fighting to stay alive in the biggest rental market in the U.S.Hours after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill into law that will fine residents who rent out their apartments for illegal short-term...
Oct 24 2016 // Airbnb, the online lodging service that investors now believe is worth $30 billion, faces a reckoning.In eight years of torrid growth, the company has often clashed with local public officials seeking to minimize the...
Oct 10 2016 // A U.S. judge expressed skepticism toward a bid by Airbnb to halt a San Francisco law that imposes fines on home rental companies for processing bookings by hosts not registered with the city.In its lawsuit against San...
Aug 30 2016 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo must soon decide whether to authorize hefty fines for many people who offer to rent out their New York City apartments on Airbnb.Meanwhile, the online booking service said it’s policing its...
Aug 8 2016 // Airbnb is suing the city of Anaheim over a law that regulates short-term rentals.The suit filed in late July argues the city violates free-speech rights and federal law by holding Airbnb responsible when users post...
Aug 1 2016 // Airbnb is suing the city of Anaheim over a law that regulates short-term rentals.The Orange County Register reported the suit argues the city violates free-speech rights and federal law by holding Airbnb responsible when...
Jul 8 2016 // Another bill dealing with the sharing economy is headed to the California governor’s desk.A bill to ensure homeowners and renters offering rooms for rent on hosting platforms like Airbnb and Home Away understand what...
Jun 16 2016 // It goes by many names: the “sharing economy,” the “gig economy,” the “on-demand economy.” Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who has...
Jun 1 2016 // European Union governments should not ban services like home-rental site Airbnb or ride-hailing app Uber except as a last resort, the EU says in new guidelines, seeking to rein in a crackdown on the “sharing...
May 23 2016 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Teresa Miller is offering consumer tips for both guests and hosts of home sharing sites like Airbnb, as use of these sites may rise in Pennsylvania with the state hosting two major...
May 20 2016 // Airbnb Inc. was accused in a civil rights lawsuit of ignoring a Virginia man who said a host with the online room rental company had rejected his reservation request because he’s black.Gregory Selden, 25, sued in...
Apr 28 2016 // Drivy, a French startup that lets people hire out their cars in much the same way Airbnb runs a market for houses, said Thursday it raised 31 million euros ($35 million) to fund its continued expansion across...
Mar 9 2016 // Austin, Texas, boasts a reputation as one of most cutting-edge cities in the U.S, but new local regulations on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and rental sites such as Airbnb are stirring discontent in the tech sector,...
Nov 24 2015 // Marcus Ohanesian and Katie O’Connor’s apartment in Worcester, Massachusetts, is in a “family-friendly neighborhood central to the middle of Worcester” and a short walk to excellent restaurants and...
Nov 5 2015 // San Francisco voters rejected a ballot measure to limit short-term rentals to 75 days a year and require hosting companies such as Airbnb to yank listings that violate the limit.Voters also re-elected Mayor Ed Lee while...
Oct 26 2015 // Travelers worldwide may love using Airbnb to book vacation stays, but the company that revolutionized home-sharing faces a hostile ballot measure in the city where it was founded.Proposition F on the Nov. 3 San Francisco...
Jul 29 2015 // Rhode Island’s Insurance Division is advising consumers to examine insurance implications when using home-sharing rental websites such as Airbnb.“Technology has changed the way people interact. There are now...
Jun 24 2015 // This question of whether an Uber driver is an employee doesn’t matter just to Uber.As you may have heard, the on-demand car-service juggernaut lost a case early this month before the California Labor Commissioner on...
Jun 11 2015 // San Francisco supervisors tabled further attempts to regulate home-shares this week, despite calls from some members to vote on a plan to limit short-term vacation rentals to 60 days a year.The vote by the Board of...
Dec 16 2014 // Short-term housing rentals are growing in Los Angeles – and so is the debate around them.“Home sharing” industry giant Airbnb has released a study showing its website helped nearly 4,500 “hosts”...