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In late October, members of the Detroit Tenants Union gathered at River Pointe Tower, an affordable senior housing complex on the east side of Detroit, to demand that their private equity landlord join them at the bargaining table.
In November, the Wall Street Journal reported that Blackstone was selling off a portfolio of about 90 senior housing properties, incurring over $600 million in losses. In its article “Blackstone is Offloading a Flopped $1.8 Billion Investment…
Zohran Mamdani will begin his term as New York City’s mayor on January 1, bringing with him a groundbreaking spate of policy proposals aimed at promoting affordability and improving quality of life for working New Yorkers. The incoming…
There has been a recent settlement related to the public movement against RealPage, the property-management software purchased by private equity firm Thoma Bravo in 2021. RealPage has been accused of assisting landlords in artificially inflating rents through…
The Miami Workers Center (MWC) is a community-based organization which organizes towards dignity, power, and self-determination with workers, tenants, women, and families across Miami. Since 1999, MWC has run grassroots campaigns to strengthen and expand rights and resources…
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…
On September 11, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) gave public comment at the Texas County and District Retirement System (TCDRS), Board of Trustees’ Meeting about TCDRS’s investment in Thoma Bravo, the private equity firm that acquired the…
The Tenant Union Federation (TUF), a nationwide coalition of tenant unions with locals in five states and dozens more affiliated unions across the country, has launched a groundbreaking multi-state organizing campaign against the corporate landlord Capital Realty Group.
PESP’s latest housing report shows in new detail how the poorest renters have shouldered the largest rent increases in recent years. “The Poorest Renters, the Sharpest Increases” reveals that from 2021 to 2025,…
To download a PDF version of this report, click here. Key takeaways From 2021 to 2025, there was more than a 20% increase in rents at workforce housing apartments, the lowest-rent sector of market-rate housing…
Alden Global Capital – the hedge fund infamous for slashing newsroom jobs at hundreds of U.S. newspapers it acquired – has made a dramatic incursion into the manufactured housing market via its affiliate Homes of America. Since 2021,…
PESP’s work and research into the private equity industry generates significant media coverage in numerous outlets. Scroll down to see where our expertise was featured in August 2025. Featured coverage Stateside: Tuesday, August 12, 2025…
