3 Airbnb Hosts on What Guests Demand Now

Last week Airbnb landed a victory in San Francisco that will likely inform all future challenges that cities want to take on with the home-sharing site, and it also led the company to outline how it will work with cities in the future, ideally preventing another Prop F near miss. Released this week, that outline, dubbed the "Airbnb Community Compact" [see full text below] has elements of both ambiguity and specificity and emphatically--some might say crassly--echoes the U.S. Constitution, romanticizing that "Airbnb is a people-to-people platform—of the people, by the people and for the people—that was created during the Great Recession to help people around the world use what is typically their greatest expense, their home, to generate supplemental income." A blog post introducing the document asserts, albeit questionably, that "home sharing has long existed as a right. For many years, everyday people visiting a city have sought out home sharing as a way to have an authen