>Housing prices are still set by supply and demand. You can't charge LA prices in Atlanta no matter what kind of fancy scheme you run. What you describe is the

>Housing prices are still set by supply and demand. You can't charge LA prices in Atlanta no matter what kind of fancy scheme you run. What you describe is the "price bracket" (say Atlanta vs LA, or good neighborhood in Atlanta vs bad neighborhood in Atlanta). Sure, you can't do that. But the actual price has a lot of wiggle room inside that bracket, and apparently the final price is not (always) set by supply and demand, but (in cases such as this) by big landlords doing colluding price-fixing instead of competition. The demand not being very elastic, many will pay a little more, but only because unhealthy collusion has made options for less dissapear.