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@UTAustinSoc. Landlords, urban housing movements, community and cities. Typo repeat offender.
Aug 11, 2023 19 tweets 5 min read
Are large, corporate landlords taking over the rental market?

This question is hard to answer: landlords can hide ownership with many tools. In a new working paper, I resolve this problem. What do I find?

In short, rental landlording is becoming an institution. A 🧵 (1/N) For background: anxiety about acquisitions by large, private equity and institutional investors is high. Private equity investment was a subject of recent Senate hearings. (2/N) banking.senate.gov/hearings/how-p…