Airbnb has a history of proactively working with its hosts to offer temporary housing in order to help those displaced by crisis. When Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast in 2012, it created the Disaster Response Tool. Earlier this year, the company offered free housing to those in limbo due to Trump’s executive orders that suspended refugee admission and travel to the US from seven majority-Muslim nations. Today, the home-sharing company is launching Open Homes, a platform that aims to unite and simplify its humanitarian efforts under one program to let people host refugees, evacuees, and others in times of need, for free.

Airbnb lets anyone sign up for Open Homes and set parameters for how they choose to participate (days the home is…

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