New Research Looks At Ways To Help Stop Airbnb Racial Discrimination

By Shankar Vedantam

Published March 2, 2017 at 5:08 AM EST

Airbnb has come under fire in the last year following reports that hosts are less likely to rent to African-Americans compared to whites.

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