Case study 35
airbnb.org
2024 · March 2022 onwards
Context
Getting students out of Ukraine solved the first problem. The second was where they slept. The partnership with airbnb.org turned attention into beds while the borders were still moving.
My role
Partnership · Housing Logistics
- Built and ran the referral pipeline between our coordination desk and airbnb.org.
- Triaged requests by location and urgency, from Sumy and Kharkiv through to Budapest, Warsaw and Bucharest.
- Placed people into homes across Hungary, Poland and Romania as routes opened and closed.
- Kept the public account of the work accurate while the placements ran.
Impact
- 1,167
- People housed
- 300
- Homes opened
- 1 month
- From partnership to placements at scale
- 3
- Countries receiving placements
Emergency housing delivered at speed, and a working template for how a community-run response and a global platform can move people indoors in days rather than months.
