A nonprofit arm of Airbnb is stepping up efforts to help people who need free temporary shelter after the devastating one-two punch of two hurricanes.
Airbnb.org is matching people offering their homes with people who had to leave theirs. As of Oct. 17, the nonprofit says it has found free housing for over 1,500 people from Florida. Another 4,300 have received shelter in hurricane-hit North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
Those numbers are likely to grow as damage assessments are carried out, the group’s head told the Miami Herald. In past disasters, stays in temporary houses were typically around two weeks. Now, “we’re getting a lot of requests for extensions,” said Christoph Gorder, Airbnb.org’s executive director…