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Coming Friday: Atlanta is for rent

By John Perry
May 12, 2011

From 2000 to 2010 the supply of new housing units outpaced demand by 50 percent in the four largest metro Atlanta counties (Fulton, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Cobb), according to new census figures. The result: In those four counties alone, more than 143,000 houses, condos, apartments and other units were vacant in 2010 – and 67,000, or nearly half, of them were for rent. Find out what that means for renters, landlords and neighborhoods.

About the Author

John Perry is technical director of the AJC's data journalism team. Before joining the newspaper staff in 2008, Perry was the senior Computer-Assisted Reporting Fellow at the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in Washington, D.C.

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