A Washington, DC-based resident who lists her home on Airbnb is attempting to start a grassroots effort to prevent supporters of President-elect Donald Trump from being able to access Airbnb properties during January’s inauguration events.
The Washington Post reported Stacy Kane, a 40-year-old charter school executive director, has reached out to other Airbnb hosts in the Greater Washington area to either take their rentals off the market for the Jan. 20 inauguration or jack up the rental prices and donate the money to nonprofits that support progressive causes. In an email, Kane said that she wanted to “show Trump supporters who are coming into the DMV that we do not welcome hate, misogyny, or intentions to take over DC.”
But while Kamala Harris carried the vote for the District of Columbia by a wide margin, Trump’s return to a Washington residency is not being scorned by local Airbnb hosts. To date, only four people have signed up to join Kane’s boycott campaign while the Washington Post found more than 950 available rentals on Airbnb for the weekend leading up to the inauguration.
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