Find local classifieds, jobs, housing, and more on Craigslist - a leading platform for buying, selling, and connecting with the community.
Craigslist is a classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, for sale, items wanted, services, community service, gigs, resumes, and discussion forums. It started in 1995 as an email distribution list to friends, featuring local events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It then became a web-based service in 1996 and expanded into other classified categories.
Craigslist allows anyone to post just about anything for free, and the vast majority of ads on Craigslist are posted by individual users rather than big businesses. It's very much a community-moderated system, relying on users to flag inappropriate ads. Craigslist has resisting allowing ads by traditional real estate agencies, forcing agents to post the same type of ads individuals are posting.
While Craigslist has expanded into many cities around the world, there have been some concerns around illegal or dangerous transactions occurring through the site. Still, Craigslist remains extremely popular for facilitating a wide variety of transactions and providing localized information.
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