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Will Brookfield end YES! Communities’ window A/C ban? A 2-year investigation by National Public Radio (NPR), tracking deaths from heat, found that residents manufactured home parks are among the most at risk. …
A new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project examines the private equity industry’s incursion into the U.S. manufacturing sector and its wider impacts on workers and communities. …
To download a PDF version of this report, click here. Introduction The manufacturing sector is key to the United States economy, accounting for 10.2 percent of the country’s…
In July, two tenant organizations connected from across the globe to discuss their new landlord: the private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management. Spanish tenants from the Sindicato de Inquilinas e Inquilinos de Madrid (SIM) and manufactured housing residents with the…
Two of the largest private equity companies in the U.S., Apollo Global Management and Brookfield Asset Management, have been on recent buying sprees, spending billions of dollars to acquire tens of thousands of rental units and manufactured home sites, and…
The private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management has gotten back into the housing market in a big way recently, a notable change from just a few years before, when Brookfield unloaded $10 billion of US rental housing in…
Yes! Communities is one of the largest owners of manufactured housing in the U.S., with 266 parks in its portfolio comprising over 77,000 home sites. The company is currently owned by Stockbridge Capital Partners, the Pennsylvania Public Schools…
The University of California (UC) has invested billions of dollars from its endowment and its staff retirement plan with private equity-owned landlords. These landlords own apartments, student housing, subsidized affordable housing, single-family rental homes, and manufactured home parks. …
Today, 24 residents of Yes! Communities across four states and advocacy groups MHAction and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project published an open letter to Brookfield Asset Management urging the private equity firm to commit to a basic…
Brookfield-owned Westinghouse Electric spent more than $800,000 on anti-union consultants last year and failed to make required disclosures, according to a complaint filed…
Brookfield Properties is owned by Brookfield Corporation, a private equity firm headquartered in Canada. As of 2025, Brookfield Properties owns over 41,000 units of multifamily housing units across four countries with over 9,000…
The Trump administration’s “pro fossil fuel” stance has raised questions about the financial prospects of proposed and currently ongoing clean energy projects such as solar, wind, and battery storage, despite utility scale renewables…
