The new report, which was authored by GSU professor Taylor Shelton and Rutgers researcher Eric Seymour, shows that in Atlanta three corporate landlords own 19,000 single-family rental homes, “These companies own tens of thousands of properties in a relatively select set of neighborhoods,” GSU’s Shelton said, “which allows them to exercise really significant market power over tenants and renters because they have such a large concentration of holdings in those neighborhoods,”
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Study reveals corporate landlords own 11% of metro Atlanta’s single-family rental homes
Dr. Taylor Shelton, an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at Georgia State University, along with his collaborator Dr. Eric Seymour of Rutgers University, has shed light on the alarming concentration of single-family rental homes in metro Atlanta.
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