Launched in August 1974, the program provides rental assistance to income-eligible individuals and families across the country. Section 8 in Erie: Brandon Penn Brandon Penn is an Erie-based landlord who rents properties through the federal Section 8 rental assistance program. Danielle Johnson believes her life was saved by the federal Housing Choice Voucher (Section 8) […]
Kendra Sherman is photographed on her street in El Cajon on August 8, 2024. (Zoë Meyers for inewsource) Kendra Sherman said she didn’t know exactly what to expect when her El Cajon home sold last year. The 53-year-old single mother has lived in the same two-bedroom apartment for 10 years. And as a full-time medical […]
Justice Department claims RealPage software helped landlords collude over rents The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that RealPage used technology to help landlords share information about leases, thereby keeping rent high for millions of tenants. WASHINGTON — A lawyer for RealPage, a company sued by the Justice Department for allegedly helping landlords maintain high rents, […]
OLYMPIA – Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has joined with the U.S. Department of Justice and eight state attorneys general to file a lawsuit accusing RealPage, a nationwide revenue management software company, of colluding with landlords to raise rent prices. According to a press release, RealPage is the leading revenue management software system for […]
The government of British Columbia says landlords will not be allowed to increase rents by more than three percent in 2025. The government announced that the change, which is linked to inflation, will come into force on January 1. This year, the permitted rent increase is 3.5 percent. “At a time when we know renters […]
Oregon and Washington, along with six other states and the federal government, have joined an antitrust lawsuit against real estate company Real Page, accusing the company of using data to artificially inflate rental prices. The lawsuit alleges that the real estate software company and landlords illegally colluded to increase their profits by using an algorithm […]
WASHINGTON (TN) — A real estate software company is being sued by the Justice Department and several states for allegedly allowing landlords to raise rents. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and other federal prosecutors announced Friday that RealPage Inc.’s software enabled landlords to raise rents across the United States. The government filed the lawsuit against […]
The Department of Justice, along with the attorneys general of Tennessee, North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon and Washington, have formally filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against RealPage Inc., a company founded to provide technology platforms for the rental housing industry. RealPage Inc. was accused of Sections One and Two of the Sherman Actwhich […]
On Friday, August 23, the Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against software company RealPage, which provides a service to landlords to set rent prices. It is not the first lawsuit against the company (states like Arizona and some cities have filed similar cases), and previous reports, such as a 2022 investigation by ProPublica, laid […]
WASHINGTON (TN) — A real estate software company is being sued by the Justice Department and several states for allegedly allowing landlords to raise rents. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and other federal prosecutors announced Friday that RealPage Inc.’s software enabled landlords to raise rents across the United States. The government filed the lawsuit against […]
