Corporate landlords use RealPage in Austin, Minneapolis yet rents fall there because of supply of new housing.
RealPage does impact rental prices, but only marginally, and the real impact to prices is from supply constraint + demand.
If there is enough supply, any realpage algorithm wont matter much because of market forces. Market forces trump everything
Unless a certain company interferes with market forces — aka the whole purpose of this lawsuit.
If you need a place to live, what’re you going to do, be homeless? They have enough of the market in some cities to impact the market in a way that distorts the prices for everyone. Market forces cannot operate when companies act anticompetitively
even if realpage disappears overnight, rent prices wont fall because the new construction is outlawed by the NIMBYs.
fix new construction via zoning reform if you want to actually help people
People aren't pool balls bouncing around on a table they are fully capable of serving their interests.
Its weird to argue against the obvious conclusion that price fixing increases price