San Francisco-based Airbnb says Atlanta is about to be its East Coast tech hub and soon expects to start hiring from the city’s local talent pool.
The move comes on the heels of a similar expansion announcement from Seattle-based Microsoft. Both expansions are set to make camp within the city of Atlanta, and both have prompted community meetings and concerns over Atlanta’s ongoing affordable housing crisis, worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Airbnb’s public policy director for North America, Laphonza Butler, spoke about the issue with WABE’s “All Things Considered” host Jim Burress.
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