About a month ago, I was in Mount Pleasant and there was a large weekend event with many craft vendors and activism. There was a booth that fought for rights of renters, basically wanting to create a union for renters in the city.
After reading this article, it really hammers the idea of a renters union.
For the story that helped lead to these lawsuits, check this out: https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-realpage-rent
ProPublica has been incredible at doing a deep dive into some critical issues, and the depth of their investigation about Yieldstar is fascinating yet terrifying. It is well worth a read.
Ooo, even better! That is incredible and big props to propublica for the reporting. Thank you for sharing.
The loss of local journalism in cities across America is a real tragedy. The people don’t get quality that uncovers these issues. So this must be huge for them to chase down and publish this story.
