Airbnb Will Hold Hosts to Higher Standard, Hire More Minorities
- The home-sharing company releases discrimination report
- Airbnb sets goals to diversify hiring and procurement
Will Airbnb's New Anti-Bias Rules Work?
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Airbnb Inc. unveiled a series of steps to address complaints of racism and other discrimination by people using the online service to rent their homes.
The San Francisco-based company will ask hosts to agree to an anti-discrimination policy that goes beyond U.S. legal requirements, it said in a a 32-page report authored by Laura Murphy, the former head of the American Civil Liberties Union. The new rules, crafted by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and civil rights attorney John Relman, will ask property owners to affirm that they won’t discriminate based on "race, religion, national origin, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or age."