Ossoff wants to hear from Augustans about housing market

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Your complaints over the soaring cost of housing have reached the ears of Senator John Ossoff.

On Friday, he made a public plea to families in the Augusta area to contact his office.

The senator wants to hear stories like the ones we first told you about three years ago.

We introduced you to tenant after tenant on the brink of homelessness, after out-of-state investors purchased the homes they had been living in for years.

The new out-of-state landlords forced the tenants out of the rental homes before upping the price of rent and putting it back on the market.

The senator says these huge out-of-state investment companies are driving up the cost of housing and making fewer homes available.

He says he needs facts and data to understand the impact on the housing market, which is why he is asking for your help.

“We are looking for data and stories from the Augusta area. So if you have had experience with one of these huge out-of-state companies thats buying up all these homes in Georgia either because you are a tenant, or you have been priced out of the housing market, or you have gotten offers on your home from some of these out of state companies and you want to share that with my office,” said Ossoff.

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