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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-Based Payment Award, Equity Instruments Other Than Options, Granted In Period, Fair Value

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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-Based Payment Award, Performance Adjustment Range

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Share-Based Compensation Arrangement By Share-Based Payment Award, Performance Adjustment Range On Initial Calculation

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Award Performance Target, Percentage

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Units Which Have Not Reached Full Economic Parity With Common Units

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Period over which grantee's right to exercise award under share-based payment arrangement is no longer contingent on satisfaction of service or performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, combination of market, performance or service condition.

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Redeemable Noncontrolling Interest in Operating Partnership - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands	1 Months Ended		3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
	May 31, 2022	Mar. 31, 2022	Jun. 30, 2022	Jun. 30, 2022
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Common unit limited partnership interest redemption for common stock (in shares)				1
LTIP and Performance LTIP
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Units outstanding (in shares)			1,600,000	1,600,000
Units which have not reached full economic parity with common units (in shares)				1,300,000
LTIP units
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Common partnership unit per converted LTIP unit (in shares)				1
LTIP units \| Director
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)	81,000
Fair value of units granted	$ 450
Performance LTIP units
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Vesting period (in years)		3 years
Share-based compensation arrangement by share-based payment award, award performance target, percentage		250.00%
Granted (in shares)		1,200,000
Granted (in dollars per share)		$ 10.02	$ 5.64
Units outstanding (in shares)			1,300,000	1,300,000
Units which have not reached full economic parity with common units (in shares)				1,200,000
Performance LTIP units \| 2019 and 2020 Grants
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Performance adjustment range (as a percent)			200.00%	200.00%
Minimum \| LTIP units
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Vesting period (in years)				3 years
Minimum \| Performance LTIP units
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Performance adjustment range (as a percent)			0.00%	0.00%
Minimum \| Performance LTIP units \| 2019 and 2020 Grants
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Performance adjustment range (as a percent)			0.00%	0.00%
Minimum \| Performance LTIP units \| 2021 and 2022 Grants
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Performance adjustment range (as a percent)			0.00%	0.00%
Performance adjustment range on initial calculation (as a percent)			75.00%	75.00%
Maximum \| LTIP units
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Vesting period (in years)				5 years
Maximum \| Performance LTIP units
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Performance adjustment range (as a percent)			200.00%	200.00%
Maximum \| Performance LTIP units \| 2019 and 2020 Grants
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Performance adjustment range (as a percent)			200.00%	200.00%
Maximum \| Performance LTIP units \| 2021 and 2022 Grants
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items]
Performance adjustment range (as a percent)			250.00%	250.00%
Performance adjustment range on initial calculation (as a percent)			125.00%	125.00%