Th City of Philadelphia just passed a new ordinance with a vote of 17-0 banning the use of algorithmic pricing for properties in the city. San Francisco was the first city to enact such a ban. Philadelphia is the second and it is expected that others across the nation will follow suit.

The city bill references an anti-trust motion brought by the department of justice.

The Justice Department alleges that RealPage's pricing software has features that are anticompetitive and therefore violate the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law passed more than a century ago.

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