DC's attorney general has sued 14 of the city's largest landlord firms, claiming they entered into agreements with a property management software firm to keep rent prices high in a city with a ...

This computer software might have told your landlord they could raise your rent NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with ProPublica reporter Heather Vogell about her reporting on a software that helps ...

Even small unfair regionwide rent increases can represent a real problem, the FTC contends, in an environment in which fully ...

Millions of people across the United States are paying far more rent than they can reasonably afford, with rental housing prices rising far quicker than household income.In 2022, 22.4 million U.S ...

The evidence shows rent-pricing software is "a technique for adjusting to market changes more rapidly," Gary Galles, professor of economics at Malibu-based Pepperdine University and a signer of ...

The software often recommends rent reductions, she added. The use of the RealPage software in setting rents was the subject of a ProPublica investigation in 2022.

In response to growing calls to ban rent-setting software, RealPage sued Berkeley, Calif., calling that city’s law a ban on “the use of math and publicly available information.” ...

City Council bans use of software blamed for raising rent based on algorithms by Jennifer Vigil • Times of San Diego April 15, 2025, 11:55 p.m. April 16, 2025, 7:29 a.m. Share this: ...

Bharagava also said the use of rent pricing software better reflects the state of the economy, but doesn’t control it. “I think they decrease response time to market changes,” Bhargava said.

A sign reading "For Rent" is displayed on Aug. 26, 2024, in Lake Oswego, Ore. On Wednesday, Portland city councilors considered a policy prohibiting landlords from using algorithmic software to ...