U.S. DoJ Sues U.S. Landlords re: Rental Market Price-Fixing
https://www.propublica.org/article/justice-department-sues-landlords-alleged-price-fixing-realpage-rent

* use RealPage pricing software to collude/raise rents

RealPage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealPage
* Am. prop. management software
* owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo
* algorithmic rent setting/antitrust violations/price fixing

#AffordableHousing #rentals #ShortTermRentals
#corporations #PrivateEquity #profiteering #inflation
#RealPage #ThomaBravo #AlgorithmicPricing #antitrust
#HumanRights #homelessness

DOJ Sues Six Large Landlords in Effort to Stop Alleged Price-Fixing in Rental Markets

Federal prosecutors allege that the landlords have used RealPage pricing software to collude and artificially raise rents. The legal action is the latest development stemming from a 2022 ProPublica investigation.

ProPublica

[Canada: Nova Scotia] Dartmouth family must leave rental unit after Supreme Court overturns previous decision
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/supreme-court-landlord-tenant-carlo-simmons-1.7427437

* property owners to move daughter into unit after winning appeal
* N.S. Supreme Court allows property owners in Dartmouth N.S. to remove family of 6
* ends tenancy of family renting the unit 13 yrs
* small claims court adjudicator last May noted shortage of other housing options

#Canada #NovaScotia #housing #AffordableHousing #injustice #capitalism #inflation

Dartmouth family must leave rental unit after Supreme Court overturns previous decision | CBC News

A family of six in Dartmouth will have to find a new place to live after a court decision overturned a ruling that said they shouldn't be asked to vacate the duplex they're renting. The landlords are now free to take possession of the unit for their daughter.

CBC

[Chip Wilson (Lululemon) funded] Ken Sim Is Wrong: We Need More Supportive Housing, Not Less
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/01/29/Ken-Sim-Wrong-Supportive-Housing
https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/mayor-announces-major-initiatives-to-revitalize-the-dtes-at-save-our-street.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside

* plans to stop new supportive housing in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
* DTES Local Area Plan has preserved low property values/encouraged social housing for last 10y
* will hurt people/business/city

#CanPol #Vancouver #ABCvancouver #KenSim
#capitalism #billionaires #ChipWilson
#poverty #homelessness #AffordableHousing

/1 Mayor Ken Sim Announces Major Initiatives to Revitalize Downtown Eastside
at Save Our Streets Forum
https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/mayor-announces-major-initiatives-to-revitalize-the-dtes-at-save-our-street.pdf

* echos of billionaire Chip Wilson's "Vancouver Is Dying" prop/copaganda film that helped elect Ken Sim
* echos of Joe Lonsdale's Cicero Institute (model bill generator, e.g Reducing Street Homelessness act model legislation)
...

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110874005527997320
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113476849446929581
...

/2
* demonization of homelessness; addiction (public health not criminal issue)

"... crackdown on organized crime & gangs operating in DTES. This initiative
aims to address street-entrenched violence by dismantling criminal networks
that exploit vulnerable residents & undermine community safety"

* crime due to socioeconomic erosion, lack of support/services, not poverty
* I live here: sobering poverty in wealthy city/10th wealthiest country
* never had any issue w. homeless population/addicts

/3
* populist shilling/rhetoric by Ken Sim (Pierre Poilievre, who only recognized M/F binary genders btw ... echos of Trump2 transgenocide)
* gets parties elected, w/o offering solutions
* ... also due to incumbent governments NOT addressing pressing social issues:
poverty, food security, inflation, housing, employment ...

Needed:
* less capitalism/outsourcing of services
* social democracy: https://persagen.org/wpi/docs/social_democracy.pdf
* platform costing
* increased taxation
* gr. transparency/accountability

@persagen

While Wilson "loads up on Vancouver properties" through his family's Low Tide Properties company. Old article (May 2016), but very relevant. #VanRE

Didn't Wilson back Sim's campaign in Vancouver?

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/lululemon-founder-chip-wilson-loads-vancouver-prop-8246300

Lululemon founder Chip Wilson loads up on Vancouver properties

Wilson family’s Low Tide Properties aims to have $1.5 billion portfolio within a decade

Business in Vancouver
@thegreenpagesBC
Wilson helped Ken Sim get elected.
Far-right billionaire troll
Founded Lululemon, so named because to mock Asian purchasers stumbling over the pronunciation of that word
Priciest residence in the province; bane to his neighbors; ginormous dock
Funder of far-right Take Back Alberta
Founder, propagandist Pacific Prosperity Network
Sim/ABC Vancouver went f. non-existence to near sweep of Vancouver City Hall w/i 2-3 years based on demonizing/polarizing rhetoric (no solutions h/e)