As CBS News Atlanta previously reported, more than one in four single-family rental homes in metro Atlanta are owned by large corporate investors — more than 72,000 homes — giving the region one of the highest concentrations of institutional ownership anywhere in the United States.

Housing advocates have argued that those companies can outbid families with cash offers, reducing the number of homes available to first-time buyers while contributing to higher home prices and rents.

Warnock has repeatedly cited those trends in pushing the legislation, saying corporate investors have increasingly treated homes as financial assets instead of places for families to live.

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    3 days ago

    The law actually does prevent shell games as written, but they can still buy larger homes and complexes and up to 350 at that.

    Perhaps now we will see those Scifi Megastructures that eventually fall into anarchy and become ungovernable black markets lmao.