Remember we wrote to you with details of the Airbnb that hosted a ‘hens party’ for a group of women from Brisbane, the group that brought COVID to Byron before Easter and was responsible for a partial lockdown and cancellation of Bluesfest 2021? That was the Airbnb Byron Beachouse at 1/82 Alcorn Street, Suffolk Park. At the time, we twice wrote to NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard and asked why the house wasn’t listed on the State Government’s list of reported Covid infection

Home prices have soared since the start of the pandemic, as documented by many sources. Former UN specialist on housing, Leilani Farha has provided to the New Zealand Government 27 recommendations to address their housing crisis. Most, if not all of these recommendations can apply to us here in NSW. Ms Farha’s report recommends that nations adopt a human rights approach to housing policy. A new report was officially tabled at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva at the be

A court in Paris has fined Airbnb for failing to comply with local regulations. “Airbnb should pay US$9.6 million (€8.08 million) to the city of Paris…This is the first time in France that a local government wins a case against a tech giant,” Paris Deputy Mayor Ian Brossat said in a statement. Other French cities are actively working to ruin Airbnb’s European summer, with stays in France’s rural areas accounting for 45 % of bookings this summer, compared with 24 % back in 20