THE EXPOSÉ ON THE RENTAL HOUSING INDUSTRY

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How AI, Big Data, and Corporate Landlords crashed our housing market, and how to fix it.

In today's America, housing is out of reach for 51 million people, and the number is growing. Behind the housing affordability crisis lies a new culprit: AI-powered revenue management technology.

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THE ARCHITECTURE OF A CRISIS

The housing affordability crisis is not an accident; it was engineered.
Across the country, corporate landlords have deployed advanced revenue management technology and algorithmic price-fixing to drive up rents systematically.

At the center of this antitrust battlefield is the RealPage lawsuit.
This book exposes the inner workings of how data centers and artificial intelligence are being used to bypass fair market competition, pricing millions of Americans out of their homes.
It is the definitive guide to understanding the systems that crashed our housing market and the actionable steps required to fix it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

JAMES M. NELSON

"The Man behind the RealPage Lawsuit"

James M. Nelson brings over forty years of rigorous expertise to the U.S. banking industry and real estate sector. Beginning his career in 1982 as a Federal Banking Regulator, he later served as the Chief Credit Officer at a community bank before establishing a boutique commercial loan brokerage specializing in multifamily projects.

Over the past five years, Nelson has dedicated his career to researching the engineered housing crisis. His meticulous work culminated in a 1,400-page legal study analyzing pricing mechanisms and data-sharing in the multifamily housing industry. Today, this foundational research directly underpins the Department of Justice's lawsuits and over 30 legal actions against RealPage.

Operating under consulting agreements with a dozen leading antitrust law firms, Nelson has become a vital force for industry reform and transparency. Raised on a family farm near Tombstone, Arizona, he attended Eastern Arizona Junior College and Brigham Young University. He is a retired Federal Banking Regulator and Visiting Scholar currently residing in Tucson, Arizona.