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Official title: To prohibit the manipulation of rent prices in the United States, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 19, 2025 by Becca Balint · Last progress November 19, 2025
The bill strengthens federal and state enforcement and private remedies to deter coordinated rent-setting and protect renters, but does so at the cost of greater litigation exposure, compliance burdens, and legal uncertainty for landlords, housing-related services, and multi-state businesses—potentially reducing some market services and raising enforcement and taxpayer costs.
Renters will face less coordinated rent-setting because the bill targets entities that collect/share pricing and renewal data to recommend rents, reducing the risk of market-wide rent coordination.
Federal and state enforcers (FTC, DOJ, and state attorneys general) will have clearer statutory authority and additional tools (civil penalties, explicit enforcement pathways) to investigate and deter housing-market coordination.
Private plaintiffs and competitors will have stronger remedies (e.g., treble damages) and preserved access to courts (pre-dispute arbitration and joint-action waivers are not enforceable for these claims), improving the ability to obtain relief for anticompetitive conduct.
Small landlords, property managers, and other housing providers will face substantially higher litigation exposure and legal costs because the bill enables more private suits, treble damages, forbids pre-dispute arbitration for these claims, and makes early dismissal of weak antitrust complaints less likely.
Landlords, property managers, and housing-tech firms will face compliance burdens and legal uncertainty from ambiguous definitions (e.g., what counts as a "recommendation" or coordination) and a broad expansion of who can be liable, raising risk for routine interactions with third-party services.
Providers of aggregated rental-market data, automated pricing tools, and some shared operational services may be restricted or chilled, reducing access to useful market information and tools that small landlords and others rely on to operate efficiently.
Based on analysis of 7 sections of legislative text.
Makes coordinated rent-setting and paying data/algorithm "coordinators" unlawful and creates strong FTC, state, DOJ, and private enforcement with treble damages and limited arbitration defenses.
Prohibits landlords and others from using intermediaries, shared software, or coordinated systems to set, recommend, or exchange rent, renewal, or occupancy information for residential units. Treats such coordination as an antitrust violation, gives the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, state attorneys general, and private plaintiffs strong enforcement tools, and limits pre-dispute arbitration or joint-action waiver defenses in related cases. The law defines key terms (like "coordinator," "coordinating function," and "rental property owner"), creates standalone prohibitions tied to the Sherman Act and FTC Act, establishes a lenient pleading standard for claims, preserves state-law protections, and ensures surviving provisions if parts are struck down by courts.