Shit's been bad in GA for some time now. Instead of flipping homes, the money ppl are buying up rental property, colluding on exorbitant rent for an area. Then they collect a healthy deposit, first and last and perform not maintenance. Once the tenant missed one month's rent GA law allows for immediate eviction. In many cases the tenants are leasing units with substandard living conditions, like bad plumbing, rats, mold, etc. The tenants don't have much recourse in the courts and so they stop paying rent.
Landlords then would evict and keep the deposits. The evictee would be put on a black list of renters and they would often be discriminated against and charged higher deposits and rates due to "bad credit."
It wasn't just in GA, there's a whole lot of this going on. Kushner is one of the worst. But the laws are very landlord friendly in GA.
https://www.aecf.org/blog/examining-atlantas-affordable-housing-shortage