{
  "id": 16894420,
  "title": "Airbnb feels like a soulless rip-off – and its hosts are revolting | Arwa Mahdawi",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/airbnb-feels-like-a-soulless-rip-off-and-its-hosts-are-revolting-arwa",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-28T11:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/28/airbnb-feels-like-a-soulless-rip-off-and-its-hosts-are-revolting"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Excuse me if I feel no sympathy for the property owners who have threatened strike action because guests no longer have to do their chores. Whatever happened to the company’s initial guff about building community? To Airbnb or not to Airbnb, that is the question. Would you like to help pay someone’s mortgage and clean their house and fork out an extortionate cleaning fee and abide by a 90-page…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}