"That is the were conspiring to make themselves a monopolist in the rental housing market by buying out competitors and taking those units out of the rental housing market. Again this if true is a Federal crime."
Very interesting. I hope someone follows up on this. . .
It probably will not be followed up on. Colleges do lots of things like this. The Feds did move in case of financial aid a few years back and the important northeast private schools agreed and settled.
There are way way too many houses near East Campus for Duke to ever monopolize the rental housing market.