Presumably the market for renting out rooms started out virtually completely free and over the years regulations have been voted in due to problems caused by that free market.
That's not to say that those regulations are all necessary or helpful, but clearly the free market isn't enough in this case.
Same with Uber - it starts as a free-for-all, then you get stories like this:
That's not to say that those regulations are all necessary or helpful, but clearly the free market isn't enough in this case.
Same with Uber - it starts as a free-for-all, then you get stories like this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/11/uber-to-ban-c...
and they start introducing rules around it.