Competing landlords are not allowed to meet in a room and agree on rents. So they feed their private lease data into a shared pricing algorithm, let it recommend the number, and get the same result without the handshake — rents climbing across an entire metro at once, in buildings that are supposedly competing for you. It is price-fixing with a software license, and renters have been paying for it for years while the companies insist it is just a recommendation. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to outlaw setting rents with algorithms fed by competitors' nonpublic data, and to give renters and state attorneys general the power to enforce it.
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Competing landlords are not allowed to meet in a room and agree on rents. So they feed their private lease data into a shared pricing algorithm, let it recommend the number, and get the same result without the handshake — rents climbing across an entire metro at once, in buildings that are supposedly competing for you. It is price-fixing with a software license, and renters have been paying for it for years while the companies insist it is just a recommendation. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to outlaw setting rents with algorithms fed by competitors' nonpublic data, and to give renters and state attorneys general the power to enforce it.
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