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Podcast: WBEZ News
Episode: Chicago’s rental crisis: Is an algorithm rigging the system?
Description: Landlords in the Chicago area are using real estate software made by RealPage, a tech company that may be engaging in an illegal price-fixing scheme to drive up rents, according to an antitrust lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice and a class-action lawsuit filed by 12 former tenants.
The company’s own report in May confirms that their rent-pricing algorithm is used in metro Chicago.
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HOST: DIXON