"Oregon's attorney general says the software allows landlords to "coordinate rent increases rather than competing independently.""
""RealPage replaces competition with coordination," the DOJ wrote in its complaint against the company."
""It substitutes unity for rivalry. It subverts competition and the competitive process. It does s"
A Portland City Council ordinance to ban the sale or use of algorithmic rental price‑fixing software returned to the agenda after being tabled earlier in the year. The ordinance, introduced in February and now slightly revised, targets tools that let large building owners share private data and collectively set rents. The proposal is co‑sponsored by Councilors Mitch Green and Tiffany Koyama Lane. Antitrust experts and tenant advocates contend the software and participating landlords skirt federal price‑fixing laws and enable coordination to keep rents artificially high. The policy mirrors language from multi‑state litigation against property managers and follows related DOJ and state enforcement actions, including an Oregon $7 million settlement announcement.
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