Airbnb Offers to House Refugees from Ukraine
Business Wars Daily
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Today is Thursday, March 10, and we're looking at Airbnb vs. Vrbo.
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| 1:07.5 | Last fall after the United States' 20-year war in Afghanistan came to an end, more than 70,000 |
| 1:13.4 | Afghan civilians and other foreign nationals were evacuated by the U.S. military, but they needed places |
| 1:19.6 | to stay. And that's where Airbnb came in. For eight years, Airbnb's open home initiatives |
| 1:26.1 | has provided free housing for people in need, including refugees. |
| 1:30.2 | At the time, the platform said it would provide free short-term housing to 40,000 Afghan refugees. |
| 1:36.8 | So after Russian forces officially invaded Ukraine at the end of February, leaving over 600,000 people with nowhere to go, |
| 1:46.2 | Airbnb's chief executive officer Brian Chesky had a precedent. |
| 1:48.6 | Well, I think that in a global humanitarian crisis like this, I think everyone should |
| 1:52.7 | ask the question, how can we help? |
| 1:54.6 | This, to me, is a global problem. |
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