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On September 25, 2024, resident leaders with the national manufactured housing advocacy organization and PESP partner MHAction gathered at the Michigan state capitol to advocate for a series of bills that would improve protections for manufactured housing residents.
A new report from Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction) and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) analyzes the incursion of Alden Global Capital – a hedge fund infamous for slashing newsroom jobs at hundreds of U.S. newspapers it acquired…
To download a PDF version of this report, click here. Key Points Alden Global Capital, the hedge fund infamous for acquiring and stripping local newspapers, has expanded into the manufactured housing sector. In the last four…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction) have released the Private Equity Manufactured Housing Tracker, a first-of-its-kind tool monitoring private equity and hedge fund ownership of manufactured housing communities…
60 Minutes reported how hedge funds and other financial firms – including private equity – now own nearly a third of the daily newspapers in the US. These new owners “are often committed not to headlines and deadlines, but to…
In its bid to acquire investment-starved newspaper chain Tribune Publishing, the hedge fund Alden Global Capital vowed to provide $375 million in cash to the owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and others. But industry and financial experts…
