Re:RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to ren...
by ctmlr on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:15PM
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The landlord class is very powerful and they use that power to suppress the housing supply so if collective bargaining puts them out of the game that's a good thing!
Re:RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to ren...
by AnthonyMouse on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:40PM
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It still isn't "collective bargaining" when you all have different landlords.
On top of that, "puts them out of the game" means that there are no apartments to rent. And it wouldn't even work because you'd not only still have the non-landlord homeowners lobbying to suppressing the housing supply, you'd have the banks making sure you can't actually wipe out the landlords since the landlords owe them way too much money for things to happen that way.
How is that collective bargaining when your neighbors have different landlords?
All you're suggesting is to stop paying rent, which anybody can do on their own, with the usual consequences of your credit getting ruined and then the landlord serves you an eviction notice and changes the locks.
Consider the economics of what you're suggesting. Your unit costs $800k when it should cost $200k because of artificial scarcity (zoning), but then the landlord has to pay $800k for it and charge rents high enough to pay back that loan. The way you fix that is by getting the cost of the unit back down to where it should be, i.e. building more units to alleviate the scarcity. Demanding that the landlords charge less without reducing what they have to pay for the building doesn't work, because then who is going to sink $800k to build a new rental unit? Who is going to keep renting out their existing units at a loss instead of turning them into condos or similar? Which then makes the scarcity of rental units worse and causes rents to go up.