Wall Street Now Owns Your Neighborhood

Investors now own 30% of single-family rental homes in metro Atlanta. One in three houses. Not apartments. Not condos. Detached homes—meant for families.

This isn’t a blip. It’s a business model.

BlackRock. Invitation Homes. American Homes 4 Rent. These corporate landlords are scooping up neighborhoods, outbidding families with cash offers, jacking up rents, and squeezing every dollar from the American dream.

And Atlanta’s not alone.

• In Charlotte, NC: investors own 28% of single-family rentals.
  
  
• In Phoenix, AZ: 20%.
  
  
• In Jacksonville, FL: 25%.
  
  
• In parts of Texas: nearly 1 in 4 homes are snapped up by private equity.
  
  

As of 2023, over 24% of all single-family homes sold in the U.S. went to investors—up from just 8% in 2010.

This isn’t “market dynamics.” It’s coordinated extraction.

A New Feudalism

A home used to be a path to stability for many, now it’s becoming a subscription service. You don’t build equity—you pay tribute to Blackstone.

Also, corporate landlords are raising rents faster than mom-and-pop owners:

• In 2022, investor-owned homes saw rent hikes of 11%.
  
  
• Mom-and-pop rentals? 5%.
  
  

Maintenance is outsourced. Repairs are delayed. Tenants are disposable.

Eviction filings are up. In Atlanta, post-pandemic filings have returned to pre-2020 highs—and corporate landlords lead the pack.

The game: Lock out ownership. Lock in permanent renters. Build equity for shareholders, not citizens.

You’ll own nothing, and you’ll still pay through the nose—and you won’t be happy.

And don’t buy the “housing shortage” lie. There’s enough housing—it’s just hoarded, flipped, and commodified.