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San Francisco City Council Targets Free Speech To Cover Up Its Own Housing Failures

Desperate to control soaring rents, the city council bans rental data tools while ignoring its own role in the housing crisis.

Reason · Aug 14, 2024

San Francisco to ban landlord-AI gouging

The area is the first municipality in the U.S. to target AI platforms, which critics say scourge the housing market

Salon · Aug 1, 2024

RealPage Conspiracy Theories

The media, state attorneys general, and the Biden administration are blaming rent-recommendation software for rising rents. Normal stories of supply and demand are the more reasonable explanation.

Reason · Jun 25, 2024

Senators urge DOJ to scrutinize landlords’ use of RealPage software to raise rents

Four U.S. senators are calling on the Justice Department to look closely at how Richardson-based RealPage’s software is used by big landlords.

Tribune News Service · Mar 8, 2023

Seattle landlords accused of conspiring to raise apartment rents

Several of the largest property management companies operating in Seattle conspired to drive up rents and decrease competition, three lawsuits filed this month allege.

Tribune News Service · Nov 17, 2022

Renters sue software firm, landlords over artificially inflating prices

Renters are suing the Texas-based software company RealPage and some of the largest property management firms in the nation for allegedly forming what they call a “cartel” to artificially inflate apartment prices above competitive levels.

Tribune News Service · Oct 20, 2022

Secret algorithm drives higher rents

RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. as rents soar

Salon · Oct 18, 2022

Apartment demand goes "negative"

It's the first time in 30 years that's happened in Q3, typically an active period.

Axios · Oct 12, 2022

Liz Weston: Find Out and Fix What Big Data Says About You

Information about you — things you may have thought were private — is stored in databases operated by consumer reporting agencies

The Independent UK · Apr 18, 2022