Last November, Airbnb was forced to do some soul-searching. In a few short weeks, the company had angered most of San Francisco, defeated an existential threat to business in the same city, declared its platform “a movement,” and announced plans for grassroots lobbying across America. Airbnb’s campaign for home sharing was working, but at the price of its genial, responsible, good-neighbor image.
Source : More than 600 New York City hosts got kicked off Airbnb last fall for not meeting standards – Quartz