Apartment buildings near Seneca Street in Seattle. Image by Martin Junius is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 On today’s show: 0:08 – Heather Vogell (@hvogell), who is currently investigating the rental housing market for ProPublica discusses her recent investigation of YieldStar, the algorithmic software developed by RealPage to help landlords set rental prices on apartments. 0:33 – Dr. John Maa, a longtime volunteer physician with the American Heart Association discusses Prop 31, the referendum on the flavored tobacco ban. 0:44 – Alexis Petrakis, a psychologist for Kaiser in Petaluma and a member of the NUHW bargaining committee discusses the new 4-year contract that they just successfully bargained with Kaiser and that the union voted to ratify on Thursday evening. The post Algorithmic price fixing on apartment rentals; Plus appeared first on KPFA.