D.C. Attorney General Sues 14 Of The City’s Biggest Landlords For Colluding To Inflate Rental Prices

[Anonymous]

See if your landlord is on the list below. They are Bowser's best friends and financiers.

The 14 landlords named in the lawsuit are:

Avenue5 Residential, LLC
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
Bell Partners, Inc.
Bozzuto Management Company
Camden Summit Partnership L.P.
Equity Residential Management, LLC
Gables Residential Services, Inc.
GREP Atlantic, LLC
Highmark Residential, LLC
JBG Smith Properties, LP
Mid-America Apartments, LP
Paradigm Management II, LP
UDR, Inc.
William C. Smith & Co., Inc.

https://dcist.com/story/23/11/01/dc-attorney-general-lawsuit-landlords-realpage/

[Anonymous]

Cool. Now go after the violent criminals that are terrorizing our city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:See if your landlord is on the list below. They are Bowser's best friends and financiers.

The 14 landlords named in the lawsuit are:

Avenue5 Residential, LLC
AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
Bell Partners, Inc.
Bozzuto Management Company
Camden Summit Partnership L.P.
Equity Residential Management, LLC
Gables Residential Services, Inc.
GREP Atlantic, LLC
Highmark Residential, LLC
JBG Smith Properties, LP
Mid-America Apartments, LP
Paradigm Management II, LP
UDR, Inc.
William C. Smith & Co., Inc.

https://dcist.com/story/23/11/01/dc-attorney-general-lawsuit-landlords-realpage/

They’re not only Bowser’s contributor-cronies, this reads like a funders’ list for GGW and the “Smart Growth” lobby.

Nothing says “affordable housing” than a conspiracy to collude to raise rents in DC.

[Anonymous]

I live in a building owned by a company on the naughty list. I think it’s the rise in crime in the neighborhood that kept my rent the same when I renewed last month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool. Now go after the violent criminals that are terrorizing our city.

Yes, definitely can't address one problem unless we have already addressed every other problem first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cool. Now go after the violent criminals that are terrorizing our city.

The AG is worried the criminals will be priced out of the area.

[Anonymous]

On the one hand I hate how DC treats landlords, and on the other hand I hate how DC treats landlord.

I hate that they go after small landlords with some of the most tenant tilted protections ever. We no longer rent our 'rental unit' due to the horror stories which = less money for us, less housing for someone else, but less hassle overall.

BUT I also hate stuff like this collusion, or that large tenants aren't disincentivized from having their properties lie fallow for years (or the inverse, which would also apply above--incentivized to rent them).

It's all so awful.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for positing. This story will be invisible on housing twitter just like the original story about RealPage was. Anyone who claims to be an affordable housing advocate and doesn’t applaud the AG’s effort isn’t interested in affordable housing so much as they are in making sure landlords make giant profits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for positing. This story will be invisible on housing twitter just like the original story about RealPage was. Anyone who claims to be an affordable housing advocate and doesn’t applaud the AG’s effort isn’t interested in affordable housing so much as they are in making sure landlords make giant profits.

Fact check: false.

-person on housing Twitter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for positing. This story will be invisible on housing twitter just like the original story about RealPage was. Anyone who claims to be an affordable housing advocate and doesn’t applaud the AG’s effort isn’t interested in affordable housing so much as they are in making sure landlords make giant profits.

Fact check: false.

-person on housing Twitter

Name one account where you’ve seen it. Because all I see is the usual posts about zoning and a couple of misleading posts about taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for positing. This story will be invisible on housing twitter just like the original story about RealPage was. Anyone who claims to be an affordable housing advocate and doesn’t applaud the AG’s effort isn’t interested in affordable housing so much as they are in making sure landlords make giant profits.

Fact check: false.

-person on housing Twitter

Name one account where you’ve seen it. Because all I see is the usual posts about zoning and a couple of misleading posts about taxes.

Expand your follows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for positing. This story will be invisible on housing twitter just like the original story about RealPage was. Anyone who claims to be an affordable housing advocate and doesn’t applaud the AG’s effort isn’t interested in affordable housing so much as they are in making sure landlords make giant profits.

Fact check: false.

-person on housing Twitter

Name one account where you’ve seen it. Because all I see is the usual posts about zoning and a couple of misleading posts about taxes.

Expand your follows.

So you can’t name one. The market urbanists would prefer this practice was never discovered.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for positing. This story will be invisible on housing twitter just like the original story about RealPage was. Anyone who claims to be an affordable housing advocate and doesn’t applaud the AG’s effort isn’t interested in affordable housing so much as they are in making sure landlords make giant profits.

Fact check: false.

-person on housing Twitter

Name one account where you’ve seen it. Because all I see is the usual posts about zoning and a couple of misleading posts about taxes.

Expand your follows.

So you can’t name one. The market urbanists would prefer this practice was never discovered.

I'm not responsible for what you see on Twitter. That's your responsibility, and Elon Musk's.

[Anonymous]

It would be awesome if our AG stopped filing frivolous lawsuits and maybe did something about crime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It would be awesome if our AG stopped filing frivolous lawsuits and maybe did something about crime.

"D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb is suing 14 of the city’s largest landlords, alleging in a sweeping antitrust lawsuit filed Wednesday that they colluded with property management software company RealPage to artificially inflate rent prices by up to 7% across roughly 40,000 apartments in the District."

and you think that's a frivolous lawsuit?

and violating antitrust laws isn't a crime?