Comment by tptacek

The problem I have with this analysis is that it's tying RealPage to the politicized perception of rent inflation --- i.e., when the news cycles about it began. But affordability has been a crisis for something approaching a decade now, far precedes RealPage, and impacts places RealPage doesn't operate.

There's a subtext in this article that you have to follow Stoller to know about, which is whether he's aligning himself with the NIMBY opposition to the YIMBY movement, so I expect him to take some flak for these arguments, whether or not RealPage is a proximate cause of higher rents (I have no reason to disbelieve him on that point; by all means burn it to the ground).