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Algorithms · October 2022

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.

A single company's pricing algorithm, YieldStar, may be quietly nudging your rent higher, and landlords across the country are happy to let it. When the software says raise the rent, everybody raises the rent.

Source: ProPublica

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