Time Out Los Angeles – Airbnb is being sued by renters who say they were evicted so their landlord could use the site

January 11, 2017
Six people who found themselves evicted from an apartment building in July are fighting back by filing a lawsuit against their landlord and an unusual co-defendant: Airbnb. They claim the eviction was illegal and that they caught the landlord posting their units on the short-term rental site for inflated prices after the city was told they would be taken off the market entirely. The tenants’ lawsuit targets Airbnb along with the landlord because, they claim, the site is “equally liable with owner defendants as their partners in a joint venture,” the Los Angeles Business Journal reports…
Source: https://www.timeout.com/los-angeles/blog/airbnb-is-being-sued-by-renters-who-say-they-were-evicted-so-their-landlord-could-use-the-site-011117