GMA's March 15, 2022, Cities Connect call welcomed Dr. Suzanne Lanyi Charles, an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Baker Program in Real Estate at Cornell University, who discussed the vast quantities of global capital being channeled into single-family rental housing through real estate investment trusts (REITs). Many are concerned that institutionalized single-family rental housing poses threats to housing affordability, security, and stability. View the video below to hear her presentation.
Download the presentation (PDF)
Additional Resources
The financialization of single-family rental housing: An examination of real estate investment trusts’ ownership of singlefamily houses in the Atlanta metropolitan area (PDF)
Would-be home buyers may be forced to rent the American dream, rather than buy it, May 20, 2022 (Sixty Minutes)
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