Latest Airbnb Headlines
All the headlines from our Airbnb Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Homesharing Giant Airbnb Faces Rising Legal, Regulatory Risks in Big Cities
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...
Judge Skeptical over Airbnb Posture in San Francisco Rental Law Suit
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...
Governor Cuomo Reviewing Bill to Establish Fines for New York Airbnb Users
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...
Airbnb Sues Southern California City over Short-term Rental Law
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...
Airbnb Sues Southern California City over Short-term Rental Law
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...
California Insurers Group Hopes Governor Signs Airbnb Bill
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...
As On-Demand Economy Grows, Professor Sees New Kind of Capitalism Emerging
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...
EU Guidelines Seek to Limit Crackdown on Uber, Airbnb
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...
Pennsylvania Regulator Offers Consumer Tips for Airbnb Users
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...
Suit Against Airbnb Alleges Racial Discrimination in Housing Rentals
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...
French Startup Drivy (‘Airbnb for Cars’) Raises $35M to Expand; Insured by Allianz
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...
‘Cool’ Austin Icy Toward Uber, Airbnb, Bristling Tech Sector
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,...
Questions Arise as More Mass. Residents List Their Homes on Lodging Sites
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...
San Francisco Voters Reject Anti-Airbnb Measure, Re-Elect Mayor
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...
Airbnb Under Siege From Hostile Ballot Measure in San Francisco
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...
R.I. Consumer Alert Looks at Insurance Implications for Home-Sharing Rentals
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...
New Worker Classification Needed for Sharing Economy, Uber Drivers
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...
Plan to Limit Vacation Rentals Held off in San Francisco for Now
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...
Los Angeles Hosts Collect $43.1M in Rent, Airbnb Says
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”...
Home-Sharing Service Airbnb Offers $1M Host Liability Policy
Nov 21 2014 // The fast-growing online residential space sharing service Airbnb has added a $1 million liability insurance policy that protects those, including landlords and homeowners associations, facing lawsuits related to the...
