Airbnb bans listings where enslaved people used to live or work
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Airbnb's new policy prohibits listings 'on a former plantation where enslaved people lived or worked' following backlash over a '1830s slave cabin' listing.
In a section labeled "Prohibiting the Glorification and Marketing of Slavery," the company states that in July 2022 it "took a series of steps to address the listing of properties in the US that were known to include former slave houses" which "have no place on Airbnb." Kendall Tietz is a Production Assistant with Fox News Digital.
The online marketplace, which facilitates short-term housing and apartment rentals, immediately removed listings that included former slave houses and started working with experts such as historic preservation architect Jobie Hill "to address other US-based properties and Experiences associated with slavery."
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