Sinclair has been working with Airbnb over the past year on various pilot projects, with the official [temporary housing] project launching this summer. The ultimate goal is for one million Airbnb users to register as “hosts for good,” signaling that they will provide housing for people impacted by natural disasters or otherwise displaced. — Inhabitat
Sinclair will lead Airbnb's in-house humanitarian team as part of the company's goal to provide free, short-term housing for 100,000 people in need over the next five years. Airbnb announced the #weaccept project in a commercial (linked below) that aired at this year's Super Bowl, not long after Trump's travel ban was issued and also in light of Airbnb guests reporting that they experienced racial discrimination from hosts on the website.
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At first I was excited to see tech embracing architecture and design for social good (for once). AIRBNB seems to want to use design to solve issues. And who better than Sinclair?
At the same time, this solution as I read it stil falls under the basic problem with tech thinking: that tech will solve social problems on its own. As if AIRBNB is a stable housing solution for anyone. How about a program to actually build architecture for humanity? Guess that's too hard these days.
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