Inside Airbnb
When: 2015+, ongoing
Role: Founder, Data Activist, Data Collection, Data Management, Front-End Development, Back-End Development, GIS, Community Engagement, Media Relations, Partner Development, Researcher, Policy Development and Fundraising
Tools:
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Created activist platform with open data and visualizations to help cities and communities respond to the threat of Airbnb on residential neighborhoods throughout the world.
Supported grassroots activists world-wide, advised on city regulation and enforcement, participated in parliamentary Inquiries, public comment on legislature and panels on Airbnb and the affect on housing.
Developed project sustainability by recruiting and managing collaborators, creating an advisory and not-for-profit founding board and building mission consistent data sales.
The project, reports, data and advocacy have been featured in major local, national and international online, print, radio and TV outlets.
Link(s):
- Inside Airbnb website
- Interviews, Research and Report for Committee members of the European Parliament: "Platform Failures, How Short-Term Rental Platforms like Airbnb fail to cooperate with cities and the need for strong regulations to protect housing"
- Research and Report: "The Face of Airbnb, New York City - Airbnb as a Racial Gentrification Tool"
- Research and Report: "How Airbnb's Data hid the Facts in New York City"
Inside Airbnb: Home Page
Inside Airbnb: New York City
NYC Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent Page 1
Airbnb Purged New York Listings to Create a Rosier Portrait, Report Says - The New York Times Page 1
How Stoke-on-Trent became an Airbnb hotspot Home The Sunday Times Page 01
How Stoke-on-Trent became an Airbnb hotspot Home The Sunday Times Page 03
How Stoke-on-Trent became an Airbnb hotspot Home The Sunday Times Page 06
How Stoke-on-Trent became an Airbnb hotspot Home The Sunday Times Page 09
How Airbnb is taking over Sydney, one beach at a time
Murray Cox, the Australian data activist taking on Airbnb - afr.com Page 1
Murray Cox, the Australian data activist taking on Airbnb - afr.com Page 2
Murray Cox, the Australian data activist taking on Airbnb - afr.com Page 4
Murray Cox, the Australian data activist taking on Airbnb - afr.com Page 5
Airbnb prend d’assaut les villages champêtres - Le Devoir Page 1
ara technologia El 58% dels amfitrions d’Airbnb a Barcelona tenen més d’un apartament
Die Zeit - Noch Warm Page 1
Die Zeit - Noch Warm Page 2
Locations touristiques - «La mairie de Paris assigne Airbnb devant le tribunal» - Le Parisien Page 1
Locations touristiques - «La mairie de Paris assigne Airbnb devant le tribunal» - Le Parisien Page 4
Inside Airbnb Prototype