SF News Day Around the Bay: DOJ Sues Airbnb Over Hosts With Anti-Child Policy The DOJ is suing Airbnb over a policy that allows hosts to ban children under 12; a Kentucky man is accused of a road-rage incident over another driver's high beams in San Mateo; and a look back at SF's last mega-rich mayor.
Business & Tech Airbnb Is Staying Put at 888 Brannan, Ending Year of Speculation Airbnb will not be exiting the Showplace Square headquarters that was built out for it a decade ago, and has now signed a lease to stay in the building until 2037.
SF Politics Guy Who Bought Kamala Harris’s Old SoMa Condo Now Renting It Out on Airbnb The former South of Market home of presidential nominee Kamala Harris has now been transformed into a Kamala Harris-themed Airbnb, though it will cost you a minimum of $6,000 to stay there.
Business & Tech Report: Hidden Cameras Rampant in Airbnb Units, Sexual Predators Allowed to Keep Hosting A new CNN report finds that Airbnb is receiving thousands of complaints a year about creepy hosts using security cameras to record their guests' intimate moments, and the company has allowed sex offenders to keep hosting, or even become “Superhosts.”
SF News SF Woman Details Airbnb Nightmare of $300,000 In Water Damage by Guests In Viral Social Media Post That $3 million in damage protection that Airbnb offers hosts isn’t all it's cracked up to be, according to a viral Twitter thread of an SF Airbnb host, who says the short-term rental company is leaving her on the hook for hundreds of thousands in damages.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Hosts Complain of ‘Airbnbust’ as Bookings Plunge in Many Cities Twitter is auctioning off a bunch more stuff after their “X” rebrand, a 4.3 magnitude earthquake hit Monterey County Thursday afternoon, and Airbnb hosts in some regions are seeing their bookings dry up completely.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Is Trying to Thwart New Year's Eve Party Rentals Airbnb is once again trying to keep people from renting homes for New Year's parties in SF and elsewhere, a prominent activist in San Jose was killed in a pedestrian crash, and downtown architecture firm Gensler has just signed a big new lease.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Expands Service to Renters Who Want to Host Travelers Airbnb is partnering with corporate landlords to allow renters to sublet units to travelers for short stays, Elon Musk and Tim Cook have mended fences, and Steph Curry sold that mansion in Atherton so where's he living?
Business & Tech Airbnb Ending Their Refunds for COVID-19 Cancellations You will no longer get a refund if you cancel your Airbnb reservation due to COVID-19 after the end of this month, which happens to coincide with the launch of the company’s forthcoming "guest travel insurance product.”
SF News A Couple Staying at a Sonoma Airbnb Allegedly Stole an Adopted Cat... and Took Her to SoCal Described as a "neighborhood cat," Nubbins has lived in Sonoma County off Railroad Avenue for years — until she was apparently taken by a couple staying at a nearby Airbnb.
SF News 18-Year-Old Suspect Arrested For Fatal Shooting at Sunnyvale Airbnb House Party A suspect has been arrested in connection with the August 7 house party shooting at a rental house in Sunnyvale, where a raucous teen party attracted police attention even before the shooting occurred.
Business & Tech Airbnb Books Highest Net Income Quarter Ever, as People Are Vaxxed and Travelling Again The travel rebound is being very, very good to Airbnb, which just raked in more money than in any other quarter, even though the average booking price is down $12 a day.
SF News Airbnb Is Suing Guest Who Threw Sunnyvale House Party That Ended In Shooting As it has done in similar cases in the past, Airbnb announced Tuesday that it is taking legal action against the guest who threw an unauthorized teenage bash at a rental home in Sunnyvale on August 7 that tragically ended in a fatal shooting.
SF News Another Airbnb House Party Leads to Another Deadly Shooting, This Time In Sunnyvale Police were already present at a home in Sunnyvale Saturday night where a large underage party was going on when shots were fired and two partygoers were hit.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sinkhole Opens On Sixth Street 280 Off-Ramp In SF SFMTA employees are eligible for vaccines now, a sinkhole opened on the northbound Sixth Street off-ramp of 280, and Airbnb reported a $3.9 billion loss in its first financial reporting as a publicly traded company.
Business & Tech Airbnb Cancels All D.C. Reservations Ahead of Inauguration Guarding against taking any blame for providing shelter to domestic terrorists, Airbnb announced Wednesday that it would be canceling all reservations at properties owned by Washington D.C. hosts during inauguration week — as well as all reservations through Airbnb-owned HotelTonight.
Business & Tech Airbnb Removes 65 Listings for Scofflaw 'Party Houses' In SF, Oakland, and San Jose Airbnb is again cracking down on "party houses" that seem to have incurred violations around the Bay Area, but why is this coming up now when technically no vacation rentals are even permitted here?
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rain and Wind Return By Morning Airbnb announced plans for its long-anticipated IPO today, a fatal crash caused westbound traffic on the Bay Bridge, and the Bay Area will be waking up to more wind and rain on Tuesday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Sues Guest Over Unsanctioned Party Where Three Were Shot Five new liquor licenses are for sale for cheap in SF, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is pissed about Lake Merritt vendors and gatherings, and next year's Game Developers Conference is scheduled to happen in person at the Moscone Center in July.
Business & Tech Airbnb Gets Dragged For Asking People To Donate Cash To Homeowner Hosts It certainly isn't the first utterly tone-deaf thing that Airbnb has done as a company, but amid a global pandemic and recession, it seems wildly inappropriate and dumb to be asking customers to pad the pockets of hosts — i.e. homeowners — who are suddenly out their side income.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Further Restricts Party House Rentals Accused 'Boogaloo' shooter Steven Carrillo pleaded not guilty today in the fatal shooting of a federal officer, the SF City Attorney is coming after Walter Wong's money, and Six Flags Marine World is partially reopening in Vallejo.
Business & Tech Airbnb Totally Making a Comeback, Claims Airbnb The online apartment booking site says it actually had more bookings for the Memorial Day holiday this year compared to last year, and its delayed IPO may be back on for 2020.
Business & Tech Airbnb Lays Off 1,900 People, Or 25 Percent of Its Workforce As the global travel industry remains decimated with little hope of a fast turnaround, Airbnb is cutting jobs much like other big SF tech companies and startups have been doing in recent weeks.
Business & Tech For Pandemic Safety, Airbnb Launches New Cleaning Protocol and 3-Day Buffer Rule Between Guests Airbnb just announced a new set of standardized cleaning protocols for its hosts, and instituted a new rule that mandates 72 hours in between checkout of one guest and check-in for another if strict cleaning rules are not adhered to.
Business & Tech Airbnb Hosts Furious That People Can Cancel Stays for Free During COVID-19 Outbreak The home-sharing service Airbnb is allowing guests to cancel for free over the “extenuating circumstances” of coronavirus travel restrictions, but house-hoarding hosts are huffy about it.
