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How Your AI Landlord Is Raising Your Rent
Episode 98 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the quiet rise of algorithmic rent pricing. Lucas and Luna unpack a specific case from July 2026: a major property management firm using RealPage's AI to set rents across thousands of units, allegedly inflating them by double-digit percentages. We trace how these models ingest competitor data, simulate a soft housing market, and create what some economists call a virtual cartel. Along the way, we ask whether tenants have any legal recourse under existing antitrust law, and whether the FTC's recent algorithmic pricing guidance has any teeth. This…
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