Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts
As an host, I&#x27;ll never discriminate on the basis of religion, sex orientation, color of skin, national origin or gender identity.<p>When it comes to disability, I might refuse someone whose disability would cause risk in using the apartment and might have an accident because the apartment is not safe for someone who&#x27;s disabled (the building is 300 years old, there&#x27;s no elevator, the stair in the duplex apartment doesn&#x27;t have handrails)... It&#x27;s a risk if the person then has an accident...<p>Similarly in term of age, I would not rent to couples with young children because it&#x27;s too risky.<p>So, it&#x27;s discrimination but it&#x27;s mostly because this is not an hotel, it&#x27;s an apartment in which I live part of the year and it&#x27;s not adapted for disabled people or couples with young children because I&#x27;m not in those categories.<p>That said, as someone whose wife is asian, I fully understand the problem. It&#x27;s annoying and painful when people discriminate based on race.<p>In our case, we show both my face and wife face on our Airbnb profile photo because we prefer to have a host refuse on the basis of wife&#x27;s nationality than to give money or stay at the house of a racist host. I&#x27;ve had a bad experience before that with a host who was nice to me when I met him and then wasn&#x27;t as nice 5 minutes later once my wife arrived... The fact that he earned money from our stay galls me...