City of Atlanta Partners with Controversial CIM Group
To download a PDF version of this report, click here. From the controversial “Cop City” project, to the well-documented corporate infiltration of the single family rental market, Atlanta remains…
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Private Equity Multi-Family Housing Tracker
➡️ Introduction ➡️ Key Points ➡️ The Private Equity Business Model ➡️ Private Equity Landlords and RealPage ➡️ Problems at Private Equity-Owned Apartments ➡️ Ownership Numbers ➡️ Acquisitions ➡️ Geographic Concentration ➡️…
Private Equity, Public Damage
How ‘Vulture Investors’ Get Rich Wrecking Companies, Killing Jobs, Endangering the Vulnerable & Spoiling the Environment–And Our Tax Code Helps Them Do It Private equity (PE) firms use money raised from wealthy individuals and institutional investors…
2024 PESP Housing Policy Primer
The fourth installment of our Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords policy analysis series is the 2024 PESP Housing Policy Primer, which consolidates emerging policy solutions to address the increasing corporate domination of housing…
Vulture Wars: Alden Global Capital’s Assault on Manufactured Housing Residents
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…
Helter Shelter: How Blackstone Contributes to and Profits from California’s Broken Housing System
To download a PDF version of this report, click here. Table of Contents Key Points About Blackstone Blackstone Goes on a Buying Spree Blackstone Hikes Rents in San Diego Blackstone Ramped Up…
CIM Group: In the Headlines
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…
Combatting Consolidation Through Pro-Competitive Policy Reforms: Portfolio Caps, Transfer Taxes, and Right of First Refusal Legislation
Tenant advocates and government officials are expressing mounting concerns over the acceleration of corporate investment in housing. Housing financialization first gained momentum following the 2007-2008 mortgage crisis when Wall Street firms acquired foreclosed homes en masse. In recent years, the…
Progress Residential and the Racial Wealth Gap: How One Corporate Landlord Has Extracted Over $60 Million in Wealth from North Minneapolis and Hennepin County
Progress Residential, the largest Single Family Rental company in the U.S. has extracted over $40 million in wealth from the North Minneapolis community, according to a new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder…
Combatting Corporate Investors by Protecting Affordable Housing Initiatives
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has released “Part 2: Challenging State Preemption of Local Affordable Housing Initiatives” as part of its Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords report series. The series uplifts state…
New report: Progress for Who? Progress Residential Preys on Renters as It Buys Up Homes in Tennessee and the U.S. South
Progress Residential – the largest and one of the worst predatory corporate landlords in the South – has a track record of mistreating and exploiting vulnerable renters, according to a newly released report co-authored by the Private Equity…
Blackstone Comes to Collect: How America’s Largest Landlord and Wall Street’s Highest Paid CEO Are Jacking Up Rents and Ramping Up Evictions
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) released a new report, “Blackstone Comes to Collect: How America’s Largest Landlord and Wall Street’s Highest Paid CEO Are Jacking Up Rents…
