Tag: absentee landlords
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Absentee Atlanta
The last year has seen plenty of attention from local lawmakers to the problem of large, “out-of-state” landlords who are buying up our city’s and state’s housing. While the primary focus of these actions has actually been on the growth of corporate housing ownership, the language used to discuss these issues shows the close connections…
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Absentee Exploitation
Over the past week, the AJC has been running an excellent multi-part investigation of the housing conditions at some of Atlanta’s most notoriously dilapidated complexes, broadening out from the case of the now-condemned Forest Cove Apartments. While the whole situation is infuriating, I was particularly taken with the second part of the series investigating the…