Reposted by Housing Commons Research Centre
Great to talk with the Vancouver Sun about:
- how concentrated the ownership of rental properties is in the hands of large financial firms, and;
- these firms' track record of aggressively raising rents and evicting tenants.
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vancouversun.com
New data reveals scope of big-money investors in B.C. rental home market
The new data makes it 'really hard to support the claim that large institutional investors are somehow dominating the market' — Tsur Somerville, professor at the Sauder School of Business at UBC