A combination between AvalonBay and Equity Residential would put close to 200,000 apartments in the hands of one company.
Rebecca Burns
Rebecca Burns is the housing editor at In These Times and an award-winning investigative reporter whose work has appeared in Business Insider, the Chicago Reader, The Intercept, ProPublica Illinois, and other outlets.
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