@Katrina143 If "address screening" is anything like your "verifications", that doesn't give hosts much security. As far as I'm aware, guests can claim to be from anywhere they want. I've had guests whose Airbnb account info said they were from somewhere they moved from years before. Their intent wasn't nefarious, they had simply neglected to update their profile info, but the fact remains that Airbnb didn't care to check whether info was current.
It's all very nice to ask hosts to offer accommodation to those in need from a natural disaster, but if you want hosts to be eager to help out in this way, but there have been so many reports in the past of guests claiming they were displaced, that turned out to be false, and guests who actually were displaced, but treated the accommodation with total disrespect, that it's a bit much to expect hosts to be clamoring to sign up.
The same thing happened with your COVID first responders program. There were lots of posts here on the forum where hosts had accepted people who claimed to be first responders, who showed up with an entire entourage and were basically just taking a vacation. Obviously these people didn't have to provide any solid proof to Airbnb that they needed housing because they were coming to work as a first responder. To add insult to injury, many hosts provided the accommodation free of charge or at a huge discount, wanting to be responsible and caring human beings, only to be completely taken advantage of.
Airbnb needs to realize that they can't operate in ways that leave hosts open to be scammed and abused and then just say that "Oh, we now do address screening", and expect that to reassure anyone.
And considering that it's now impossible to reach CS and get a prompt response, what happens if hosts who do sign up for this have an issue with the guests? I guess they're just outta luck? Maybe they'll get a response from CS in November?