<em>The Atlantic</em> Daily: The Nightmare Landlords of Wall Street
How some corporate landlords fleeced renters after the U.S. foreclosure crisis. Plus: Trump’s shutdown strategy this time around, Steven Soderbergh’s ‘crackpot theory’ on moviegoing, and more
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In that absence, big private investment firms scooped up nearly 200,000 homes under the premise that, as landlords, they could streamline an often shoddy renting process. But, for many of the renters who had thought they had struck gold with lovely homes and lush yards, things didn’t pan out that way. Tenants conveyed stories of rapacious corporate landlords who fleeced them at every turn, from not returning
