Colabs, Coletivos e Comunidades

The sharing economy exists in a legal grey area beyond the reach of hard-won civil rights laws, and black users say they experience discrimination as a result

Rental service has faced widespread criticism over hosts refusing to rent to black guests but some say reforms will allow for continued racial prejudices

Harvard professor temporarily banned for having several test accounts while investigating how white and black users are treated differently on the site

Airbnb’s new policy is a good start. Sites that ignore discrimination against black and LGBT travellers do so at their peril – we won’t book with them, and new rivals will emerge

Company calls discrimination ‘the greatest challenge we face’ and has come under fire in recent months for users experiencing racial bias on the platform

Users report racial bias when using app, which comes after Harvard study found ‘African-American sounding’ names 16% less likely to be accepted as guests

Airbnb homeowners count the cost of renting to guests who turned their spaces into party pads on New Year’s Eve

San Francisco-based company reached an agreement with California’s housing agency amid complaints of guests being rejected for their race

Exclusive: Tami Barker, who said she was canceling a guest’s booking because the woman was Asian, must take a course in Asian American studies

I used the website for a trip to Amsterdam but didn’t use its payment system