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Corporate landlords have a large amount of control over the US housing market. [1] This places them in a unique position of having enough power to impact the class and racial makeups of certain communities.
A new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and African Communities Together (ACT), found that since the Southern Towers Apartment Complex, located in Alexandria, Virginia, was purchased by the Los Angeles-based private equity firm…
Over the last 15 years, CIM has been the center of headlines in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, among other media outlets. The news stories have covered a range of issues: CIM’s…
On August 29th, tenants, community members, and faith leaders staged a protest and vigil at the Southern Towers Apartment Complex in Alexandria, Virginia. The action marked the third anniversary since private equity firm…
In 2020, private equity firm the CIM Group purchased the Southern Towers apartment complex in Alexandria, Virginia. CIM receives funding from several pension funds including the Pennsylvania Public School’s Employees’…
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is responsible for the oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, federally backed mortgage institutions that were created with the goal of improving the US housing market. On May 30, 2023, FHFA issued a…
The Los Angeles-based private equity firm CIM Group has been struggling to raise its current infrastructure fund, CIM Infrastructure Fund III. The fund was launched in the summer of 2021 and sought to raise between $1.5 billion to…
The Federal Housing Financial Agency (FHFA) was created with the purpose of increasing access to safe, affordable, and equitable housing. Tasked with the oversight of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the stated values…
“We all know it’s because of private equity firms, because of investors…” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) PESP Submits Statement about Private Equity and Rising Housing Costs On July 14, a House Financial Services Subcommittee held a hearing seeking to pin…
Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), is a framework that prioritizes the consideration of the ethical impacts of investments, company leadership decisions, and even environmental waste in regards to how an organization or company functions. Though there are currently…
Reuters reported how corporate investors “piled into the U.S. property market during the COVID-19 pandemic, in part as many smaller landlords were hit hard by non-payment from tenants who were protected by eviction moratoria.” See: Reuters; The…
Tenants from African Communities Together protested and spoke to the University of California Regents about their investment in the CIM Group: WATCH VIDEO OF THE ACTION. On the morning of January 17th, chants of “C-I-M, SHAME ON…
