Attorney General Jeff Jackson has sued six landlords for illegally working together to raise North Carolinians’ rents.

The Justice Department, with its state co-plaintiffs, filed an amended complaint Tuesday in its antitrust lawsuit against RealPage, to sue Greystar Real Estate Partners LLC (Greystar); Blackstone's LivCor LLC (LivCor);

Just days after being sworn into office, new North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has sued seven large companies that own thousands of apartments and other housing units, alleging they've been illegally colluding to raise rents,

The U.S. Department of Justice alleges massive landlords colluded to decrease competition and set rental prices by sharing competitive information.

The U.S. Justice Department is suing several large landlords for allegedly coordinating to keep Americans’ rents high by using both an algorithm to help set rents and privately sharing sensitive information with their competitors to boost profits.

The country's biggest apartment landlords have been added to a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice last year — which is considered "one of the most sweeping legal actions ever taken by the federal government against a private company in the rental-housing industry,