On Wednesday, the Goldwater Institute filed a lawsuit against Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes to compel compliance with Arizona’s Public Records Law alongside American Freedom Network attorney Michael Bloom.
The institute believes Mayes is withholding information to prevent the release of past documents on numbered complaints that were received by her office last year. The attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging that RealPage and nine major landlords conspired to artificially inflate rents in Phoenix and Tucson, contributing to the state’s affordable housing crisis.
According to Mayes’ lawsuit, residential rents in these cities rose by at least 30% over the previous two years due to RealPage’s revenue management software, which collected sensitive pricing and occupancy data from competing landlords and then directed them on which units to rent and at what price…