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Airbnb offers free housing to refugees and others not allowed into the US

CEO Brian Chesky tweets offer, presumably as a result of President Trump's executive order to temporarily ban such people from the country

Published Mon, Jan 30, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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AIRBNB, the home-sharing site, has said that it will give free housing to refugees and any others not allowed into the United States, presumably as a result of President Donald Trump's executive order to temporarily ban refugees from the country.

Brian Chesky, the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, tweeted the offer late on Saturday as travellers from several Muslim-majority countries were detained or otherwise placed in limbo at airports around the world.

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