This is one form or market manipulation that we can all agree is suboptimal for renters. But in order for it to even have a chance at success, there's a deeper

This is one form or market manipulation that we can all agree is suboptimal for renters. But in order for it to even have a chance at success, there's a deeper and more insidious market manipulation: an engineered shortage of apartments. If there was adequate housing supply, landlords could not profit from this collusion. However, we embrace this collusion through heavy restrictions on housing supply, which directly enrich landlords. This is the true collusion that we should remedy, and perhaps there should be lawsuits against the city and its land use officials.