'Total lawlessness': Anger as Trump admin blesses 'diabolical' scheme to jack up rent costs
President Donald Trump’s Antitrust chief Gail Slater ended the Biden DOJ’s antitrust case against alleged software rent-fixing conspirator RealPage.
National average rent fell 0.3 percent from August,” according to the Wall Street Journal, and some of that relief happened because Biden’s DOJ had sued data sharing software and consulting firm RealPage, which uses algorithms to help giant landlords collude to raise rent and keep other properties off the market.
But Trump assistant attorney general Abigail Slater announced that her antitrust division at the department of justice had settled the lawsuit with a sweet deal for Realpage that exacted no penalties and extracted no admission of wrongdoing from the company....
Dec 20, 2025