Airbnb hosts more likely to reject guests with disabilities, study finds

Guests with blindness, cerebral palsy, dwarfism and spinal injuries were refused at higher rates, sometimes when homes were advertised as wheelchair accessibleAirbnb hosts routinely reject guests with disabilities, sometimes when they have even advertised their homes as wheelchair accessible, according to a new study that adds to growing concerns about discrimination in the sharing economy. A Rutgers University study of nearly 4,000 requests for lodging on the home-sharing platform found that gu