America’s Housing “Recovery”: Wall St. Buying Homes to Rent Back to Their Former Owners

“The Blackstone group, the biggest player in the new REO to rental market, has spent $2.5 billion in the last year purchasing 16,000 homes, a number that amounts to over $100 million per week. Property records show that many of the homes Blackstone has acquired in Fulton County over the last few months were purchased on the courthouse steps at the monthly foreclosure auction, or through short sales—when a lender agrees to accept less than the amount owed on a loan. The vast majority of these homes are not empty, but occupied by homeowners who fell behind during the great recession.”

http://www.alternet.org/occupy-wall-street/ugly-truth-about-americas-housing-recovery-its-wall-st-buying-homes-rent-back?paging=off

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