This is such an odd circumstance. The OAG is not saying each of the management firms is actively colluding, but is accidentally colluding by agreeing to use RealPage pricing. In practice, this looks like RealPage is simply collecting rent data to determine what pricing looks like in the market.

Yes, these RealPage estimates seem to be used, but if these estimates were wrong, the large landlords would simply fill up their competitor's units and would create an incentive to create more competitor units.

Perhaps the DC governemnt would do better to simply build it's own brand of low-cost housing.