Tracy Rosenberg on Nostr: "The software allows #landlords to see what rent other landlords are charging almost ...
"The software allows #landlords to see what rent other landlords are charging almost instantly and, critics say, encourages them to jack up prices together, so nobody undercuts anyone else. If tenants can’t or won’t pay the higher #rent, the software encourages landlords to hold the units off the market. That sort of behavior is exactly what the federal and state #antitrust laws were written for more than 100 years ago".
https://48hills.org/2024/07/sf-could-be-first-in-the-country-to-ban-price-fixing-rent-algorithms/Published at
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