Corporate investors “buy low and rent high” to populations who can least afford it. A two-year national study, led by Carol Camp Yeakey in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will examine the impact that corporate investors have on renters, especially marginalized communities of color, in St. Louis, Cincinnati and Atlanta.
  • curve@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This is good news. Will be great to have solid data to back up what we all know.

    Maybe then we can ban corporations from owning housing.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    The rental market should only be allowed to be owned by non-profit entities. Housing is a human right and an absolute necessity just to even live in our society, especially with so many places making it a crime to be homeless. Having rent prices go up ridiculous amounts year after year for the same damn place is so ridiculous.