Find more information on the issues deeply affected by private equity investments:
A new report from advocates the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction) analyzes emerging policy solutions aimed at protecting residents of manufactured housing as private equity and other corporate landlords continue to buy up…
An NBC News investigation examines how years of financial struggles, staffing shortages, and patient safety failures at Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut preceded the death of a 21-year-old patient who had been admitted for…
The fifth installment of our Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords policy analysis series is Protecting Manufactured Housing from Private Equity, which analyzes a suite a policy interventions to combat private equity’s growing presence…
PESP has created the Private Equity Hospital Tracker (October 2026) A current list of all private equity-owned hospitals in the U.S. Key Points Approximately 561 US hospitals are owned by private equity firms. That represents:…
GoldenTree’s Quorum Health sale echoes private equity exits from Steward Health, Prospect Medical As New Mexico regulators review the proposed sale, PESP warns 11 hospitals could be left with 30% more debt while Wall Street lenders receive a payout New…
A PESP report examines GoldenTree Asset Management’s proposed $957 million sale of Quorum Health to a newly formed nonprofit, raising concerns that the company’s hospitals could face the same financial pressures seen at Steward Health Care…
From AI Boom to Investment Risk: Rethinking pension fund data center exposure As community opposition, regulatory scrutiny, and infrastructure constraints mount, some public pension funds are beginning to reconsider their exposure to data center investments. Their decisions raise…
In September, the Connecticut Education Association (CEA) released a brief detailing private equity’s presence in K-12 education throughout the state and how firms may be well-positioned to profit from the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit (FSTC) program, while diminishing pedagogical,…
Yes! Communities’ eviction activity in Oklahoma has gained recent media attention, with one TV news story describing the company as a “serial evictor.”[1] Yes was recently acquired by Brookfield Asset Management, one of the largest private equity firms…
And how the state’s pension system could be part of the solution A new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project examines how private equity investments are affecting Washington workers and the role the state’s pension system could play…
Tlaib, PESP seek answers as Canadian investment giant becomes Michigan’s third-largest landlord Lawmakers raise concerns about Brookfield’s acquisition of YES! Communities, citing rent increases, excessive fees, and neglected maintenance Detroit, MI — Members of Congress are…
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. …
