admin Airbnb’s head of global policy, Chris Lehane, came all the way to Toronto to announce the new security measures at a press conference. This initiative includes doctors of Canada for the protection from guns, which is an initiative taken as there have been multiple cases of open fire in the Airbnb rental rooms.
For the same, Airbnb announced to limit people under 25 years of age from booking local listings which will apply for the whole of Canada. The latest case which pushed this policy was a deadly shooting act which took place on Friday night that left 3 people dead. The shooting happened in an Airbnb rented place where a party was happening.
The company is on its way to introduce a24*7 support hotline for the neighbourhood to connect the inhabitants with ‘rapid response agents’ who will help to solve the problems.
These restrictions are only meant to be applied to homes young Airbnb users attempting to rent within the communities where they already live.
The aim is to curb the use of Airbnb private properties for ‘unauthorised parties’.
He said, “We know from our research that 99.9 per cent of the people on Airbnb are good people… and treat homes like their own homes. We have a 0.3 per cent incident rate across our platform when it comes to issues involving property damage and a 0.6 per cent incident rate when it involves personal security issues. Those numbers get higher when you’re looking at… reservations made by people under 25… within the community they live in.”
He was positive about the inclusion of doctors in the initiative and said, “Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns are vocal and active advocates on this issue and see first-hand the human toll that gun violence takes on patients, their families and their communities.”
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