A leading charity working with homeless people has defended its decision to rent out two ‘pods’ it has created with beds and showers on AirBnb and charge people up to £220 a night.
Emmaus, which runs charity shops around Bristol and is one of the city’s leading homelessness charities, has recently opened the pods as part of a bigger development to create new homes on the roof of its headquarters in St Pauls.
This month, the charity began advertising the two pods, which include a double bed, shower room but no kitchen or much storage space, on AirBnB, but came in for criticism on social media.
