Ask HN: Can Airbnb Help housing Ukrainian escapees in central europe, please?

1 points by nakedrobot2 4y ago ↗ HN

There are hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians fleeing Ukraine now. Here in the Czech Republic we are scrambling to find places for them to stay. Same thing in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and so on.

Does anyone know anyone at Airbnb who would help? There are 15000 airbnb apartments in Prague alone.

Can the tech world please help?

There are already lots of websites in various regions where people can sign up to offer goods, drivers, accomodation, etc. Airbnb can COMPLETELY SOLVE the accomodation part - the locations, the volunteers, etc.

thank you.

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Risse 4y ago ↗

They already help: https://news.airbnb.com/help-ukraine/

mtmail 4y ago ↗

https://www.airbnb.org/help-ukraine started a program already. "Airbnb.org is funding short term housing for up to 100,000 people fleeing Ukraine." My understanding is that hosts need to take part but payment is provided by airbnb.

marius_k 4y ago ↗

This is Lithuanian volunteers project:

https://stipruskartu.lt

They organize hosting and traveling from PL boarder.

mytailorisrich 4y ago ↗

Note that Airbnb does not own or control any property. They help private landlords sell holiday lets.

So you hit many problems: agreement, funding, regulations, etc.