{"id":2216,"date":"2025-05-15T07:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2025-05-15T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:36:41","slug":"california-ban-on-algorithmic-rental-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/15\/california-ban-on-algorithmic-rental-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"California ban on algorithmic rental pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(This one was in Drafts for a while) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The <a href=\"https:\/\/themarkup.org\/artificial-intelligence\/2025\/03\/13\/ai-can-rip-you-off-heres-how-california-lawmakers-want-to-stop-price-discrimination\">Markup reports<\/a> on a state ban on algorithmic pricing of rental homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1974\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_0245-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-2241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_0245-1.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_0245-1-415x700.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_0245-1-89x150.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_0245-1-768x1296.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_0245-1-910x1536.jpg 910w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The recent ranks of California legislators, however, have included few renters: As of 2019, CalMatters&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/2019\/04\/california-legislature-lawmakers-who-are-landlords\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">could find only one state lawmaker who did not own a home<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 and found that more than a quarter of legislators at the time were landlords.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This one was in Drafts for a while) The Markup reports on a state ban on algorithmic pricing of rental homes. 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