DC sues more than a dozen of DC's largest landlords, alleging rent collusion
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> "[Defendants] communicated openly about their anticompetitive scheme at public events and through advertising campaigns, and actively worked to recruit new members into what amounted to a District-wide housing cartel."
> The premise of Realpage’s RM Software is simple: It generates a suggested rental price to charge for any particular apartment. It does so based on statistical models that estimate supply and demand for rental housing specific to the apartment’s geographic area and type of unit. The proprietary and non-public data RealPage collects, courtesy of the property owners and managers it contracts with, is key to these algorithms.