OOF-AII-926070
Apartment Owner and Manager UDR Allegedly Used RealPage Algorithms to Set San Diego Rents in Keller v. UDR, Inc.
In Keller v. UDR, Inc., plaintiff Jacob Keller alleged that UDR used RealPage pricing tools to set rents or occupancy levels at its San Diego properties after a city prohibition took effect on June 21, 2025. The complaint claims the tools relied on nonpublic competitor data and contributed to inflated rents for UDR tenants. UDR, a large publicly traded apartment owner and operator, had previously acknowledged using YieldStar in decisions concerning certain multifamily units.
- Event date
- 2026-06-21
- Country
- Location not specified
- Severity
- Low
- Evidence state
- Single-source
Assessment status
Generated from available public incident evidence using OOF® governance methodology. It is not an official investigation, legal determination, regulatory finding, certification, or OOF® Approved Assessment.
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Assessment confidence dimensions
- Source corroboration
- Single-source
- Extraction completeness
- Moderate
- Methodological assignment confidence
- Moderate
Measures source-group corroboration only; it does not establish factual truth.
Measures populated source fields after deterministic normalization; it does not measure correctness.
Measures automated assignment support; substantive correctness requires authorized human review.
Known facts from the incident record
- The incident record identifies the event date as 2026-06-21.
Reported claims
- In Keller v. UDR, Inc., plaintiff Jacob Keller alleged that UDR used RealPage pricing tools to set rents or occupancy levels at its San Diego properties after a city prohibition took effect on June 21, 2025. The complaint claims the tools relied on nonpublic competitor data and contributed to inflated rents for UDR tenants. UDR, a large publicly traded apartment owner and operator, had previously acknowledged using YieldStar in decisions concerning certain multifamily units.
Material unknowns
- Independent corroboration is not established in the available incident record.
Primary governance problem
The incident appears to expose a governance problem involving flow, value. Available reporting supports preliminary methodological interpretation, not a finding of fault or non-compliance.
Architecture intelligence
VFM® — Value Flow Mechanisms Architecture
Primary architecture
The reported flow, value concern falls within the governed questions represented by VFM® — Value Flow Mechanisms Architecture.
Governance focus: When has existing value materially changed, and what change has occurred to it?
Canonical methodology (ParentStandard):
Preliminary governance questions
- When has existing value materially changed, and what change has occurred to it?
- What operational authority and controls applied to Udr, Residential Property Management Companies, Landlords at the relevant time?
- What evidence would establish how Yieldstar, Realpage Revenue Management Software, Algorithmic Rental Pricing Systems, Ai Powered Revenue Management Systems produced or enabled the reported outcome?
- What additional independent evidence is required to resolve the material evidence gaps?
Evidence gaps and limitations
- Only one independent source group is represented; corroboration is not established.
- Country could not be resolved from the available evidence.
- AI technology is not specified in the source record.
- industry is not specified in the source record.
- AI system type is not specified in the source record.