October 2021
October 2021 moved short-term rental rules up a level. Michigan's House voted 55-48 for a bill to stop local governments zoning out short-term rentals and sent it to the Senate. Amsterdam's registration deadline passed on 1 October, and the city's count of Airbnb listings fell from 16,648 in March to 2,924. The European Union consulted on rules for the whole bloc, Airbnb agreed to remove listings in Vienna's municipal housing, and Sonder and its merger partner revised their terms.
A look back, written in October 2026 from sources published in October 2021. Stay Gazette opened in July 2026.
World · 1 October 2021Airbnb Listings in Amsterdam Fall From 16,648 to 2,924 After Registration DeadlineThe six months Amsterdam hosts had to put a city registration number on their listings ended on 1 October 2021, and Airbnb said it was removing every listing without one unless it was exempt. The city counted 2,924 Airbnb listings on 4 October, against 16,648 in March.By Tomás Ferreira · Filed 11 October 2026 · 7 min read
Crackdown · 27 October 2021Michigan House Votes 55-48 to Stop Local Bans on Short-Term RentalsIn the early hours of 27 October 2021 the Michigan House passed House Bill 4722, which would bar local governments from zoning out short-term rentals while letting them cap the number. The bill went to a Senate committee and was not law.By Marcus Dane · Filed 11 October 2026 · 7 min read
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What else was reported in October 2021
- 1 October 2021The European Union was running a consultation on regulating short-term rentals across its member states, and one set of rules for the whole bloc was among the options, ShortTermRentalz reported on 1 October 2021. ShortTermRentalz
- 2 October 2021Ballast Point Ventures said it was putting $5 million into Key Data Dashboard in a Series B round; the company supplies benchmark and market data to the vacation rental trade and collects reservation data from 400,000 properties, VRM Intel reported on 2 October 2021. VRM Intel
- 14 October 2021Zeus Living, a startup offering flexible, furnished rentals, raised $55 million in a round led by SIG, bringing its total raised to $125 million, TechCrunch reported on 14 October 2021. TechCrunch
- 18 October 2021Airbnb announced that it would remove all listings in municipal housing in Vienna and give the city access to its City Portal, a step that ShortTermRentalz, reporting on 18 October 2021, said followed the City of Vienna's lawsuit victory against Airbnb in May. ShortTermRentalz
- 28 October 2021Sonder Holdings and Gores Metropoulos II said on 28 October 2021 that amended merger terms put the combined company's implied pro forma enterprise value at $1.925 billion, that Sonder would receive approximately $110 million in additional capital from investors, and that they had agreed to move the merger agreement's end date from 28 October 2021 to 31 January 2022. Sonder Holdings Inc. and Gores Metropoulos II, Inc. (press release filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission)
- 29 October 2021Airbnb said in a trust and safety update dated 29 October 2021 that the anchor of its plan to prevent unauthorized parties over Halloween weekend in the United States and Canada was a ban on one-night bookings of entire homes by guests without a history of positive reviews. Airbnb Newsroom