As Los Angeles firefighters battled the five wildfires that spread throughout the county on Wednesday evening, Airbnb, Uber and Lyft were among the companies stepping in to offer immediate assistance to displaced residents.
On Wednesday Airbnb announced it was working with 211 LA, the non-profit organization that provides Los Angeles County residents with a variety of health, human and social services, to provide temporary housing free of charge to anyone who has been displaced by the fires, which have ravaged multiple communities throughout Los Angeles County and displaced approximately 180,000 people. Airbnb has been offering the service since 2012, when a Brooklyn host told the company she wanted to open her home to help people who had been displaced by Hurricane Sandy that year. In 2020 Airbnb.org was established as the non-profit arm of Airbnb.com to specifically assist with temporary housing for those affected by disasters around the world. Recent…
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