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State Senate Takes Aim at ‘Institutional’ Landlords

By: Jim Michaels COLUMBUS, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – They are being called “institutional” landlords. Out-of-state corporate entities that buy a large number of homes in one fell swoop, many times not living up to their landlord-tenant agreements or even providing basic services. It has inspired bipartisan Senate Bill 76 in Columbus. The bill takes corporations owning 50 or more homes in a...

Frank Dodd Update: CFPB experiences data breach ‘major incident’; NYDFS to begin charging crypto firms for supervision

Monday, April 24, 2023 CFPB experiences data breach ‘major incident’ It has recently become public that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) suffered a data breach earlier this year when a now-former employee of the bureau sent confidential and personal information on more than 250,000 consumers to their own personal email account. The CFPB has...

REIA Update – April 2023

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Millennials Make Historic Switch From Renter-Majority to Homeowner-Majority Generation

By: Alexandra Both With 52% of Millennials owning a home, the largest generation in the nation transitioned from renter-majority to owner-majority in 2022. The number of Millennial homeowners increased by 7 million in the last five years, more than triple the number added by Gen X, who came in second. Millennials remained the dominant renter generation, with 17.2...

Happy Easter ’23!

By: Brad Beckett This Sunday, April 9th is Easter.  Each year the holiday falls on the first Sunday following the full moon after the vernal equinox.  Interestingly, the date fluctuates each year between March 22nd and April 25th.   Today’s infographic from the dataviz blog takes a look at “Easter by the Numbers” all the way from the resurrection of Jesus Christ...

Is Rent Theft?

By: Jeffery S. Watson Dear Anna, For those of you who do not learn from history, you will repeat it. In 2016, a book titled Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, a progressive, pro-tenant publication, began circulating and influencing many of the news stories regarding housing being available in the United States. Then came the Covid Eviction Moratorium, and out of...