ProPublica: The DOJ is reportedly prepping a rental market collusion lawsuit against software maker RealPage, whose tools are used by landlords to set apartment prices. Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs: www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

The DOJ is reportedly prepping a rental market collusion lawsuit against software maker RealPage, whose tools are used by landlords to set apartment prices. Read our 2022 investigation into RealPage and its role in America's soaring housing costs: www.propublica.org/article/yiel...

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.www.propublica.org Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...

PLEASE LET GOOD THINGS COME FROM THIS

I'd really like to have a little friendly chat with this algorithm developer, too. Fucking ghoul

How is this reconciled with generally low vacancy rates nationally?

🙏🙏🙏

Reminder that this DOJ action would go away under Project 2025 if Trump or Haley capture the White House.

A new home was built in my neighborhood and is renting for $3,800. That’s crazyyyy

Can we skip ahead to the part of the script where the DOJ does a Deferred Prosecution Agreement in exchange for a single digit percentage of their annual take and a little embarrassment?

Gee I wonder if Kushners involved 🧐

no but supreme court bribery executive harlan crow is truly a despicable evil human

The Harlan Crow-Clarence Thomas connection no one saw coming-RealPage - James M. Nelsonjamesmartinnelson.com Introduction: In October 2022, ProPublica broke a story about a little-known company, RealPage, which was artificially increasing rental rates on apartments. Later that month, lawsuits were filed agai...

American capitalism, baby! And the current landscape is STILL, WAY too constraining for Republicans and conservative greed-mongers. Project 2025 is the conservative blueprint to make the entire nation live under the rule of folks like Harlan Crow.

inhumane. everybody involved with this software deserves the most painful deaths.

"If you'd listened to your gut, you might have remembered to feel human concern for other people's human needs. Never again!"

I hope their great grandkids feel it.

My apartment complex uses this. It’s horrible. Zero accountability and no way to know what their random charges are based on

Maybe we should do a rent freeze or strike until we figure out what’s going on??

From the miserable ass state that brought you Enron...

Late, but good

Good but the next company doing this will have a great road map to avoid collusion in the future. I can see ways to sell the functionality while passing liability to end users I wonder if all the property owners using the software will be included in this lawsuit as defendants

Get their ass!

Now do the insurance rate one.

Ah, Clarance has been a dick his entire life. What a garbage human and a gatbage American.

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Get 'em.

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