But he came back to serve as Realpage's "principal scientist" - the architect of a nationwide scheme to make rental housing *vastly* more expensive. For Roper, the barrier to low rents was empathy: landlords felt stirrings of shame when they made shelter unaffordable to working people. Roper called these people "idiots" who sentimentality "costs the whole system."
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