If recent history has shown us anything, it’s that this will just lock in the current rates. Of which the combined profits from, will be exponentially more then whatever legal costs and fines are ultimately paid.
Maybe a single pasty will get 36 months, with 24 suspended.
All of which will eventually be overturned on appeal to SCOTUS.
If this was to do with collusion against home owners, a significantly powerful voting block that is politically catered to, it’d be different.
But renters are viewed as livestock, the pay pigs for the elite, and only given enough illusions of justice or action to avoid bread riots.
I will provide the caveat that if this investigation dovetails into, or brings in, investigations into companies that also harm the interest of middle class homeowners, there might be some hope for it making a dent.