“It will take a good deal of time in order to see that new supply has an effect on affordability in markets,” said Eric Seymour of Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy.
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NJSPL: Identifying & Examining NJ Corporate Home Ownership
The phrase “corporate landlord” is often used to refer to large corporate entities backed by private equity funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts. In researching corporate home ownership throughout seven municipalities in New Jersey, researchers found that some areas exhibited high and increasing levels of corporate ownership, broadly defined, but most corporate entities owned just a few properties and most of these appeared to be locally based.
What is property speculation — and who’s doing it in Detroit?
“Speculation is often correlated with historical processes like racial disinvestment and segregation,” Seymour said. “Detroit is such a highly segregated, racialized place, which is one reason why there’s so much of it.”
Homelessness in New Brunswick and Programs to Address It
This report identifies the challenges that emergency service organizations and their clients are experiencing as they attempt to access, or consider accessing, the existing service infrastructure and to identify areas of unmet need.
Who Really Owns The U.S. Housing Market? The Complete Roadmap
According to GSU professor Taylor Shelton and Rutgers professor Eric Seymour, all three of these companies used an “extensive network of more than 190 corporate aliases registered to 74 different addresses across ten states and one territory.”
Redlining helped spur disinvestment in Wichita’s urban core. How much is an in-fill plan changing that legacy?
“Redlining, broadly understood and not limited to the use of HOLC maps, is an important but partial part of the story, one that has shaped continuing processes of racialized disinvestment and marginalization,” Seymour said of the demolition trend in Wichita.
Does Wall Street Own Your Dream Home?
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,”
New Paper on Affordable Rental Housing by NJSOARH
A new article by the NJSOARH team examines the difficulty of enumerating the number of federally subsidized housing units and provides a method of reconciling data sets at the parcel level to identify housing needs and rental stock.
New Paper on Foreclosure Crisis by Prof. Eric Seymour
A new paper by Eric Seymour and Josh Akers investigates outcomes associated with properties sold using land contracts signed between 2008 and 2015 in Detroit, leveraging real estate transaction, tax foreclosure, and eviction and land contract forfeiture records
Three companies own more than 19,000 or nearly 11% of rental houses in metro Atlanta
“Corporate landlords like places that are growing, and they like places where housing is relatively cheap,” Shelton said. “But the other box that Atlanta checks is that we have very lax tenant protections.” To address the situation, Shelton and his fellow researchers (Eric Seymour) decided to make their methods of investigation available to the public.
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