Data Policies

Inside Airbnb is a mission-driven activist project with the objective to:

provide data that quantifies the impact of short-term rentals on housing and residential communities, as well as create a platform to support advocacy for policies to protect our cities from the impacts of short-term rentals.

Community Guidelines

Please:

• Only take the data you need.
• Do not scrape data from the site, if you would like to subscribe to the data directly, please email data@insideairbnb.com
• Do not republish the data. We think this site provides the best context for the data.
• If you are writing data analysis scripts, download the data once, not each time you run your analysis. Instructors, please take note of this when assigning data for a course, and please consider contributing to the project if your course relies on the data.
• Inside Airbnb data should be attributed and cited appropriately. See Credit, Attribution and Acknowledgements.
• Consider the mission of the Inside Airbnb project and how your use of the data can contribute to it, how you could give back to the project, or create or contribute to a community organising with the data.
• Do good with the data.

Credit, Attribution and Acknowledgements

Inside Airbnb is an independent, mission-driven project that collects, processes and publishes data, conducts research and engages in advocacy to raise awareness of the impacts of short-term rentals on housing and communities. Through data, research and collective action, we aim to inform public debate, support policies that protect housing and promote more equitable cities.

Our data is the result of sustained research, technical development and ongoing maintenance. We make publicly available datasets accessible without charge to support public-interest work, but producing and maintaining these resources requires considerable labour and financial support.

How to credit Inside Airbnb

If you use Inside Airbnb data in your research, publications, reporting, visualisations, presentations or other work, please clearly identify Inside Airbnb as the data source.

Your credit or citation should:

• Identify Inside Airbnb as the data provider.
• Identify the location and data collection date(s) used, where relevant.
• Include a link to Inside Airbnb or the relevant dataset.

Academic publications and research

Academic publications using Inside Airbnb data are expected to include a formal dataset citation in their reference list or bibliography, in addition to identifying Inside Airbnb in the methodology, text, tables or figures where the data is used.

A mention of Inside Airbnb in the body of a paper or figure caption should not replace a formal dataset reference.

Suggested dataset citation:

Inside Airbnb. (2026). New York City Airbnb listings data, September 2026 [Data set]. Housing Justice Data Lab. https://insideairbnb.com/get-the-data/

Please adapt this citation to identify the location, collection date(s) and specific dataset(s) used, following the citation style required by your publisher or institution.

If you use multiple datasets or historical collections, identify the coverage and collection dates sufficiently for others to understand and reproduce your research.

Journalism, visualisations and other publications

Inside Airbnb should also be clearly credited in news reporting, policy reports, interactive maps, charts, presentations and other public-facing materials.

Example — Chart or visualisation:

Source: Inside Airbnb, New York City, September 2026.

Example — News article or report:

Analysis based on data from Inside Airbnb (insideairbnb.com).

Where appropriate, provide a link to the relevant dataset or methodology. Short-form credits may be supplemented by more detailed information elsewhere in the publication.

Acknowledging Inside Airbnb's contribution

We encourage researchers and other users to acknowledge that their work has benefited from the publicly available data maintained by Inside Airbnb, even when no direct technical assistance or research collaboration was provided.

Suggested acknowledgement:

This research benefited from publicly available data collected, processed and maintained by Inside Airbnb, an independent project of Housing Justice Data Lab.

If Inside Airbnb has provided additional archived data access, technical assistance, research collaboration or support through a specific programme, please acknowledge these contributions as appropriate and in accordance with any applicable agreement.

For example, projects supported through the Global South Data Programme may use:

This work was supported by the Inside Airbnb Global South Data Programme.

Describing Inside Airbnb data

Please describe Inside Airbnb data as publicly available data, publicly accessible data, or data made available without charge, as appropriate.

We ask that publications avoid describing Inside Airbnb datasets simply as "free data", which can obscure the considerable work and resources required to produce and maintain them.

Share your research and work

We encourage researchers, journalists, community organisations and others to share their publications, investigations, maps, visualisations and other work using Inside Airbnb data.

Sharing your work helps us better understand the reach and impact of Inside Airbnb, how our data contributes to research and advocacy, and how we can continue to support these efforts.

You can share your work directly with the Inside Airbnb team by emailing us at community@insideairbnb.com. We will not publish or share it with others without your consent. Additionally, contributions may be considered for inclusion in the Inside Airbnb Library, with the author's permission.

Learn more about the Inside Airbnb Community.

Attribution or acknowledgement does not imply that Inside Airbnb or Housing Justice Data Lab endorses the findings, interpretations or conclusions of those using our data.

Data licensing

Inside Airbnb's publicly downloadable datasets are currently made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

If you redistribute or publish licensed data, including modified datasets or other material incorporating protected portions of the data, you must comply with the applicable licence conditions, including any required attribution, licence notice and indication of modifications.

Original research, analysis, statistical findings and visualisations produced using Inside Airbnb data are not automatically subject to the CC BY 4.0 licence. Whether licence obligations apply depends on how the underlying data is used and what protected material, if any, is reproduced or shared.

Public and Archived Data

The Inside Airbnb Public and Archived Data Policy is to offer a reasonable amount of publicly available data (the last 12 months) that meets the immediate needs of the audience the project was designed for — housing and community activists and journalists. All other data will be archived and must be requested via an "Archived Data Request".

Archived Data Requests

Requests for archived data are assessed based on the amount of data requested (across time and space), the intended use, and the applicant's affiliation and purpose.

Depending on these criteria, requests may be declined or require a funding contribution to help sustain the project.

Currently, access to archived data without a funding contribution for academic research is provided exclusively through the Global South Data Programme (GSDP), which supports selected research projects focused on short-term rentals and housing in the Global South. Research requests outside this programme require a funding contribution.

Where possible, we also aim to provide archived data to housing and community activists, as well as journalists.

Visit the Data Requests page to submit a request or learn more about the Global South Data Programme.

New Data Policy

The goal of the Inside Airbnb project is to add more data over time. However, adding data depends on capacity, demand for the data, strategic considerations, and opportunities to pursue the mission.

New Data Requests

Because of the limited resources of the project, in most cases, it is not possible to respond to most requests to add data for new cities or other locations to the project.

The exceptions are requests that could result in meaningful change for residents and communities affected by Airbnb and short-term rentals. In most cases, these requests come from residents, activists or the administrators of cities who are in the process of understanding the impact from, and/or regulating or enforcing illegal short-term rentals.

For other requests, commissioned data requests will be considered, which not only adds data to the project, but also helps to sustain and support the project.

Visit the Data Request page to request data for a new region, or a region you don't see here.