Airbnb was slapped with a proposed class action in a Washington D.C. federal court for allegedly violating the fair housing act and the civil rights of its African-American users The complaint alleges that 25-year-old Gregory Seldon  was denied accommodation in Philadelphia in March 2015 because of his race He claims an Airbnb host rejected his initial application but subsequently accepted the same application when Seldon re-applied using profiles imitating white men