I studied 1 million home sales in metro Atlanta and found that Black families are being squeezed out of homeownership by corporate investors
- Written by Brian Y. An, Director of Master of Science in Public Policy Program & Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Corporate investors own nearly one-third of all single-family rental properties in Atlanta.Kruck20/iStock via Getty ImagesIn the years since the Great Recession, when housing prices dramatically fell, Wall Street investors have been buying large numbers of single-family homes to use as rentals. As of 2022, big investment firms owned nearly 600,000...
