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Justice Department preparing rental market collusion lawsuitwww.politico.com The Biden administration has focused on reining in housing costs as a key part of its economic agenda.

What's extra fun is that this web of corporations are colluding even further! Megacorp landlords like Greystar contracts with iApartments to install smart locks that track when you're home. iApartments sells that data per their TOS to RealPage and others. RealPage sets prices for Greystar...

And the Terms of Service selling data collected inside your apartment are NOT part of the rental lease agreement! Folks say housing is a human right, but have been blind to this exploitation. You shouldn't have to sell your privacy to live somewhere.

Hopefully this includes the Kushners.

This company is being sued by tenants and DOJ filed a brief in support of the tenants (from December): www.propublica.org/article/doj-...

DOJ Backs Tenants in Case Alleging Price-Fixing by Big Landlords and a Real Estate Tech Companywww.propublica.org A ProPublica investigation last year about RealPage’s rent-setting software led to federal lawsuits asserting inflated apartment prices.

one of the thousands of little ways the trump admin twisted the knife.

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