New Jersey bans algorithmic rent pricing, targets software that pools nonpublic rent and occupancy data across landlords

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/new-jersey-algorithmic-rent-ban/

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gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 27d (7 replies)

Some unexpected wins for New Jersey lately, huh?

David_Eight@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 27d (6 replies)

What do you mean, you make it sound like NJ is Alabama or something lol? Its a lovely place to live.

TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 26d (4 replies)

... If you enjoy being treated like a child at gas stations or left turns, at least.

/s...I appreciate the fact that Jersey is, seemingly, making solid moves lately... But the left turn and gas station BS is just plain insanity.

David_Eight@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 26d (3 replies)

OK, enjoy freezing your ass off pumping gas in January lol.

What's this left turn thing though?

incompetent@programming.dev · 3 pts · 26d (2 replies)

A jughandle is a type of ramp or slip road that changes the way traffic turns left at an at-grade intersection (in a country where traffic drives on the right). Instead of a standard left turn being made from the left lane, left-turning traffic uses a ramp on the right side of the road. In a standard forward jughandle or near-side jughandle, the ramp leaves before the intersection, and left-turning traffic turns left off of it rather than the through road; right turns are also made using the jughandle. In a reverse jughandle or far-side jughandle, the ramp leaves after the intersection, and left-turning traffic loops around to the right and merges with the crossroad before the intersection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle

David_Eight@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 26d (1 reply)

I never realized this was a Jersey thing lol

incompetent@programming.dev · 2 pts · 26d

Me either but after you asked what it was I looked up "New Jersey left turn" and that's what came up.

gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d

Yes, just not a long line of great governance.

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 27d (1 reply)

This is an antedote to a bad policy, not a good policy.

A good policy would be "Rent Freeze, until we can figure out what's going on" followed by "Rent Control as statewide policy, since you fuckers want a cartel so badly"

fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 27d

Given how the "market rate" is not a market but a Cartel rate, rents should be force-reset lower and free market discovery proceeds from there.

beep@piefed.world · 3 pts · 27d