(This one was in Drafts for a while)
The Markup reports on a state ban on algorithmic pricing of rental homes.
Easy to view this from a classical Marxist perspective as a question of ownership of capital. Below is an interesting observation from the article itself, about how current legislation is driven by the position of owners and how favors the interests of a few rather than the many:
The recent ranks of California legislators, however, have included few renters: As of 2019, CalMatters could find only one state lawmaker who did not own a home ā and found that more than a quarter of legislators at the time were landlords.