Airbnb for refugees

Millions of homes around the world are available for rent through Airbnb. Now the company wants to leverage that to help those who have no place to call home: refugees. Airbnb's Open Homes platform actually came to be in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, when Airbnb hosts contacted the company, saying they wanted to offer their homes for free to victims of the storm. Since then, Airbnb has activated the Open Homes tool 65 times in 17 countries in the wake of natural disasters. Now the company is using it to help the refugee crisis.