Anika Singh Lemar, ‘Slum Managers’, 57 Connecticut Law Review 1207 (2025). In her recent essay, ‘Slum Managers’, Professor Anika Singh Lemar interrogates the distinction between ownership and management of rental housing. Numerous legal commentators and legislators have focused on the harms associated with large commercial entities purchasing rental housing, and some have even proposed prohibiting or placing limits on certain types of ownership to address the housing affordability crisis. However, fewer lawmakers and scholars have discussed who manages these properties. Professor Lemar investigates whether management might have an even greater impact on rental housing and its tenants than ownership. Property management often has more to do with the actual lived experience of a tenant than the property’s ownership … (more)
[Sarah Schindler, JOTWELL, 8 January 2026]
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