Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC<\/a>, which has been helping low- and moderate-income New Yorkers for 40 years. The money will not be used for repairs of Airbnb host homes.<\/p>\nNeighborhood Housing Services said some funds will also go to its partners across the city, including Neighborhood Housing Services of Brooklyn CDC, Neighborhood Housing Services of Queens CDC, Bronx Neighborhood Housing Services CDC, and Brooklyn Neighborhood Services.<\/p>\n
The San Francisco-based company said the donation is coming from the Airbnb Community Fund, created in 2020 to distribute $100 million by the end of 2030 to \u201cstrengthen communities around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC submitted a proposal to Airbnb, which, after numerous conversations, approved the request.
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Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC CEO Tonya Ores and Airbnb Director of Community Partner Programs and Engagement Janaye IngramPhoto by Claude Solnik\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a substantial amount,\u201d Neighborhood Housing Services of NYC CEO Tonya Ores said. \u201cThese funds will allow us to provide critical home repair grants to homeowners who are struggling with rising costs.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said they created a grant program for homeowners of up to $7,500 to \u201caddress any concerns in their homes\u201d, such as repairs to electrical work, roofs, boilers, and even paying fines.<\/p>\n
Airbnb hosts won\u2019t qualify for funding, Ores added, noting \u201cit\u2019s not self-serving\u201d as a way for Airbnb hosts to pay for projects.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to focus on providing assistance to New York families who are facing unaffordable housing situations, and creating economic opportunities,\u201d Airbnb Director of Community Partner Programs and Engagement Janaye Ingram said.<\/p>\n
Center for NYC Neighborhoods CEO and Executive Director Christie Peale said its data indicates a need for repairs is \u201ca top cause of homeowner displacement.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is only Airbnb\u2019s most recent donation in New York State. In February, Airbnb announced $150,000 to organizations such as the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation and Adirondack Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The group, which has said that renting out spaces provides financial help to owners, has committed over $600,000 to New York State organizations via the Fund since 2021.<\/p>\n
Although this donation relates to housing, that\u2019s not always the case with funds in the past, including $1 million to Hawaii\u2019s food banks in February 2025.\n<\/p>\n
Grants globally have also gone to groups such as Take 3 for the Sea in Australia, the Japanese Service Dog Resource Center, Wildlife Act in South Africa, and the Hispanic Wealth Project in the United States.<\/p>\n
Airbnb also donated to the Florida Alliance to End Human Trafficking, the Nature Conservancy, and the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs in Atlanta to support Black entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
The short-term rental company does business in New York City, which requires hosts to live in and be physically present in apartments and houses when accepting up to two guests and bars the use of internal door locks.<\/p>\n
Airbnb supports legislation that would allow New Yorkers to make offers while away, increase the guest limit to four, and allow internal door locks, so guests and hosts can have more privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airbnb announced the donation, its biggest in this state, at an event dubbed \u201cReimagining Home: A Community Conversation\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[852,122493,122494,5229,122495,56969,41967,122496,122497,122498,122499,122500,122501,405,403,10465,5226,5225,122502,5228,5227,122503,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-226550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-affordable-housing","9":"tag-airbnb-community-fund","10":"tag-airbnb-donation","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-christie-peale","13":"tag-community-investment","14":"tag-corporate-philanthropy","15":"tag-cuny-graduate-center-event","16":"tag-home-repair-grants","17":"tag-homeowner-displacement","18":"tag-housing-affordability-crisis","19":"tag-janaye-ingram","20":"tag-neighborhood-housing-services","21":"tag-new-york","22":"tag-new-york-city","23":"tag-new-york-city-housing","24":"tag-newyork","25":"tag-newyorkcity","26":"tag-nonprofit-partnerships","27":"tag-ny","28":"tag-nyc","29":"tag-tonya-ores","30":"tag-united-states","31":"tag-united-states-of-america","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","34":"tag-us","35":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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