[Redoubts]

> What role RealPage’s software has played in soaring rents — which in the decade before the pandemic nearly doubled in some cities — is hard to discern. Inadequate new construction and the tight market for homebuyers have exacerbated an existing housing shortage.

K.

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Yup -- I love that people always point to RealPage's existence as some sort of smoking gun that proves literally every landlord is colluding with one another.

[crooked-v]

Also, even if it were proof that every current landlord was colluding, the easiest solution to that would be... to build a lot more housing, to severely dilute the power of current landlords.