Newly published housing research! We find that the effects of new construction on rents varies by the quality of the existing housing. In the first 5 years rents went up 4.4% near low quality buildings and went down 1.7% near high quality buildings (1/x) 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Introducing Who Owns Atlanta? who-owns-atlanta.org an open-source project mapping the ownership networks of 615k+ properties in and around the City of Atlanta. From the researcher tracking 1000s of parcels to residents trying to find absentee landlords, this is for you. You, too, nosy neighbors.

‪The latest ‪@njpolicylab.bsky.social‬ report written by professors @ericseymour.bsky.social & @willbpayne.bsky.social looks at corporate ownership of 1–4-unit residential properties in #NJ. Between 2012 and 2022 ownership more than doubled. policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...

Between 2012 and 2022, corporate ownership of 1–4-unit residential properties more than doubled in #NJ, according to this latest report from NJSPL and authored by #Rutgers researchers @ericseymour.bsky.social & @willbpayne.bsky.social: policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...

Professor Eric Seymour @ericseymour.bsky.social found higher #corporate ownership rates of small, 1- to 4-unit properties appear in a range of #NJ municipalities, including Trenton, New Brunswick, Atlantic City, Asbury Park, and Newark. policylab.rutgers.edu/publication/...

I am looking for a research assistant to work with me on the development of U.S. housing markets. Experience with ArcGIS, Stata useful. We build datasets that allow us to understand housing affordability, the impacts of transit and zoning, and more: rb.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FRS/jo...

Approximately 19% of Trenton's one- to four-unit #housing properties transitioned to corporate ownership between 2012 & 2022, totaling just over 4,000 properties in the Garden State capital, according to new research from @ericseymour.bsky.social w/ @bloustein.rutgers.edu: #Rutgers #NJ #NewJersey

New paper in Urban Studies on landlord harm in Los Angeles. We find that tenants in rent-controlled buildings and gentrifying census tracts were 14.8 and 9.4 percentage points more likely to experience harassment, respectively. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Planning researchers, educators and students I know of on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/GxG4vvM

Our recent article has been published in CEUS: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We use AI to identify topics discussed in LA rental listings' text to understand the subtle language of discrimination and other gatekeeping obstacles to housing. A short thread...

New Research Thread🧵: We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/

New paper with @danimmergluck.bsky.social and Jeremy Walker that came out of my stats class in spring of 2020, haha. We use a city-wide property condition survey to disrupt the notion that institutional SFR investors who often have the most capital are going to buy the "worst of the worst."