DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb today announced that he has filed suit against RealPage and fourteen large rental housing companies, including Equity Residential. The suit alleges that they were driving up rents on DC residents by colluding and price-fixing by allowing RealPage to set rents for all the participants. According to Schwalb, the price-fixing scheme may have cost DC residents millions of dollars.

Get more information from press coverage in The Washington Post and WAMU/DCist.