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    Airbnb Agrees to 60-Day Limit on Amsterdam Home Rentals

    Amsterdam has reached a pioneering agreement with home rentals website Airbnb to limit the sharing of private homes to 60 days a year, the city and website said Thursday. “A home should remain a home,” said Amsterdam councillor Laurens Ivens, in a joint statement which announced what it called a “unique” deal with Airbnb. The […]

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    Airbnb to let neighbours give feedback on hosts

    A file photo shows employees working in an Airbnb office in Paris. Photo: AFP Tokyo/San Francisco: Airbnb Inc. will soon give people renting out rooms and homes through its website a better way to find out how the strangers showing up at their properties are behaving. A new tool will let neighbours weigh in with […]

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    Activists Urge Airbnb to Remove Israeli Settlement Properties

    An international coalition of NGOs called Thursday on Airbnb to remove rental properties in Jewish settlements in the West Bank from its website. A demonstration was held in Paris, and others were planned at Airbnb’s offices in London, and in the US cities of San Francisco and Portland. In the French capital, a small group […]