Airbnb property near hospitals for self isolating healthcare workers?

I read this article: 'Nowhere else to go': Healthcare workers struggle to keep their families safe from COVID-19

Frontline healthcare workers in Sydney are having to turn to Facebook to find places to live away from their families to protect them from coronavirus.

Rose Ybanez is a nurse at Sydney Adventist Hospital with an eight-month-old baby and her 72-year-old mother with pre-existing medical conditions at home.

She shares a room with her husband and baby and said she wouldn't be able to go elsewhere to self-isolate should she contract coronavirus.

"If I did get infected I have nowhere else to go, we don't have a spare room," Ms Ybanez said.

"It's $100 a night for places accepting self-isolating individuals, but I can't pay that every night."

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I'm wondering if there is an opportunity for people with vacant Airbnb or furnished properties in close proximity to hospitals to offer to house a front-line health care worker cheaply (or for free!) ??

I think the government should also come to the party here and offer to subsidise medical staff housing - but that doesn't mean those of us with the ability to help can't do their bit.

 

I was more talking about those people in high risk professions (healthcare) who choose to stay away from their families because they don't want to put them at risk - especially if they have elderly or immunocompromised family living with them.

It's a choice rather than something mandated.

 

No, the government did not ban healthcare worker from staying in Airbnb.

There is a ban on people travelling for holidays. People staying close to work (eg health care workers) are clearly allowed to stay in Airbnb - according to Public health orders | NSW Government