Another real estate software company sued over apartment price-fixing claims — The lawsuit follows claims of similar tactics by Richardson software company RealPage::Software company Yardi Systems Inc. and 18 property management companies were named in an antitrust class-action lawsuit Friday accusing the companies of a…

  • paddirn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Housing should be considered a human right and there should not be for-profit companies allowed to be renting out apartments. It should only be non-profits whose sole purpose is managing rentals, not these damn rental corporations trying to hoover up every last penny and constantly increasing rates to keep up with “the market”. Every other industry should be lobbying Congress on this, the more of our money goes towards to having to pay rents, the less of it is available for anything else.

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      1 year ago

      Throwing the free market into the housing necedsity is a fine addition to housing - assuming no one is unhoused. Same thing with any kind of insurance. We should be covered by default then allow Cadillac insurance plans on top.

      I’m even fine with social housing being the housing equivalent of government cheese. It’s not the best solution but it.is.a.solution. which we don’t have now.

      Instead now we have the homeless shitting in the streets. And I don’t blame them. Society shit on them, seems like we could’ve seen this one coming.

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        If housing was true free market, demand would drive new construction.

        But its not, developers are artificially constrained into building inefficient single family homes, or giant luxury condos due to zoning and other hindering regulations.

        Removing these regulations would allow new upstarts to vastly undercut the current market leading to more affordable housing.