When, this July, French president Emmanuel Macron called for “no more people in the streets and in the woods”, he found an unexpected ally for his call to house homeless migrants: Airbnb, the San Francisco-based online accommodation company. Airbnb’s normal business is to help people let out their homes to tourists and holidaymakers, but its new initiative, Open Homes, connects hosts with charities that are trying to house refugees.
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