If you are not able to attend the event in person, we will be streaming the housing forum live and then archiving it on the CURA YouTube page.
Download a PDF of the "Exploring the Impacts of the RealPage Antitrust" presentation
Presenters: Lawrence McDonough, Policy Attorney for HOME Line and Senior Fellow for the National Housing Law Project, and Jordan Ash, Housing Campaign and Research Director for the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP), will speak on this month’s Housing Forum panel.
Description: The Justice Department, together with the Attorneys General of North Carolina, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Minnesota, Oregon, Tennessee, and Washington, filed a civil antitrust lawsuit in August 2024 against RealPage, Inc. alleging an unlawful scheme to decrease competition among landlords in apartment pricing and to monopolize the market for commercial revenue management software that landlords use to price apartments. The lawsuit also alleges that RealPage’s conduct deprives renters of the benefits of competition on apartment leasing terms and harms millions of Americans.
McDonough and Ash will bring years of experience and unique insight into this subject. Dr. Ed Goetz will facilitate the conversation by framing it so attendees can hear a well-rounded perspective of the ongoing RealPages Lawsuit.
The goal of the CURA Housing Forum is to stimulate public discussion on housing research and issues. We are glad to announce the return of the forum for the 2024-2025 school year, which will occur monthly (October to May) to provide a meeting place for researchers, students, housing practitioners, public officials, and citizens to learn about emerging housing programs and studies and discuss implications for the Twin Cities. The forum is free and open to the public. Ensure you are on our email list to learn about upcoming CURA Housing Forums.
The CURA Housing Forum is sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. CURA aligns the University of Minnesota resources to catalyze community-driven change.
Edward Goetz
Edward G. Goetz is director of CURA and a faculty member at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
Ed specializes in housing and local community development planning and policy. His research focuses on issues of race and poverty and how they affect housing policy planning and development. Before coming to the University of Minnesota in 1988, he worked at the mayor's Office of Housing and Economic Development in San Francisco and for several nonprofit community developers in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He has served on the board of directors of nonprofit housing agencies in the Twin Cities, and on several regional commissions related to affordable housing and development.
He is the author of The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities (Cornell University Press, 2018), New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy (Cornell University Press, 2013), Clearing the Way: Deconcentrating the Poor in Urban America (2003, Urban Institute Press), Shelter Burden: Local Politics and Progressive Housing Policy (1993, Temple University Press), and co-editor of The New Localism: Comparative Urban Politics in a Global Era (1993, Sage Publications).
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