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Tenant organizations and advocacy groups called on the North Carolina state treasurer Dale Folwell to adopt a set of principles to ensure that any future investments in housing do not negatively impact North…
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…
Rent-to-own programs have emerged as a seemingly promising option for people who face financial constraints when trying to buy a home. However, a recent article published on Insider.com sheds light on the difficult experiences faced by tenants of…
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…
Citing PESP’s work throughout the article, Tablet investigated how Blackstone optimizes profits in its real estate holdings through: “maximum allowable rent increases, evictions, the rise of…
The GoldinFinch Tenant Association recently sent this letter to investors in Meadow Partners, a private equity firm. We are a group of longtime tenants living in East Village, New York who…
As Ares Management’s housing investments drive gentrification in Atlanta, Ares founder Tony Ressler contributes to controversial Cop City project Founded in 1997, Ares Management is a private equity firm that had $360 billion in assets…
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…
NBC investigated the behavior of private equity landlord Progress Residential, and featured Inquilinos Unidos Por Justicia/ United Renters for Justice (IX), a Minneapolis tenant organization that “has won rent freezes, refunds and other…
