The U.S. Justice Department announced this week it is suing six major apartment companies for practices that drive up prices and harm renters, including Ohioans. The Department of Justice filed an amended complaint in its lawsuit against real estate software company RealPage,

Renters in Charlotte are reacting to the news that six landlords have been accused of using artificial intelligence to raise rent prices throughout North Carolina.

Several large landlords allegedly colluded in an effort to keep apartment rents high, including by using an algorithm that influences prices, according to new legal filings by the Colorado attorney general,

The real estate companies kept rents high with RealPage's software and by sharing information, the antitrust complaint says.

The complaint alleged the six companies set their rents using each other's information by either speaking with competitor's senior managers, calling around, and participating in user groups to discuss how to modify pricing methods.

The U.S. Department of Justice and 10 state attorneys general have ramped up their antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, a property management software compa