{"id":3799,"date":"2016-05-19T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/19\/airbnb-slapped-with-suit-for-alleged-discrimination-against-black-guests\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T18:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:02:37","slug":"airbnb-slapped-with-suit-for-alleged-discrimination-against-black-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/05\/19\/airbnb-slapped-with-suit-for-alleged-discrimination-against-black-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbnb slapped with suit for alleged discrimination against black guests"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An African-American man who claims he was subjected to race-based discrimination while using Airbnb slapped the company with a proposed class action in a Washington D.C. federal court Tuesday, alleging that the company has routinely violated the Fair Housing Act and the civil rights of people of color.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The complaint<\/a> alleges that 25-year-old Gregory Seldon was denied accommodation in Philadelphia in March 2015 due to his race.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Black travelers share their experiences with Airbnb \u2014 and highlight discrimination<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Court documents state that he was looking for housing while planning a weekend getaway with friends, and turned to Airbnb as a cost-friendly option. At the time, his Airbnb profile was linked to his Facebook, so it displayed his profile picture, race, education and age when he requested housing.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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An African-American man who claims he was subjected to race-based discrimination while using Airbnb slapped the company with a proposed class action in a Washington D.C. federal court Tuesday, alleging that the company has routinely violated the Fair Housing Act … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[730,768,785,789],"class_list":["post-3799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-airbnb","tag-business","tag-travel","tag-travel-leisure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}