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Evictions are just one of the headline risks that have cropped up around growing private equity investments in single-family rental homes. Concerns about private equity buyers inflating home prices and elbowing out first-time homebuyers have featured prominently in newspapers ranging…
Private equity, real estate, and debt firm Ares Management last year partnered with Pretium Partners to acquire home rental firm Front Yard Residential. Months ago, we shared our report and data with Ares management documenting Front Yard Residential’s…
In response to coverage by NPR and Bloomberg, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown is requesting a briefing by private equity firms Pretium Partners to talk about compliance with the CDC eviction moratorium and the company filing…
NPR shared the story of Katrina Chism, a single mother in Atlanta whose landlord is Front Yard Residential, owned by private equity firms Pretium Partners and Ares Management. According to Chism, her landlord refused to accept federal rental assistance money…
As we commemorate the women and men who died while serving in the U.S. military, we look at those veterans struggling with evictions and ultimately homelessness. The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has tracked eviction filings by private equity firms and…
The National Housing Law Project, The National Low Income Housing Coalition, and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project delivered a letter earlier this month to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mark Calabria, urging him to take action against landlords…
CBS News featured research by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project which showed that large and private-equity backed landlords have been filing tens of thousands of evictions since the CDC’s eviction moratorium order was passed. Private equity firms and other…
Last week, officials with the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Board sent out letters to dozens of debt collectors and major landlords who collectively house more than two million people, including the The Carlyle Group, Morgan Stanley,…
In the face of the CDC evictions ban, $50 billion in federal rental assistance, and warnings by the FTC and CFPB, private equity firms and other corporate landlords are still insisting on evicting families during the pandemic, particularly families of…
Private Equity Stakeholder Project Executive Director Jim Baker presented data on the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s (NLIHC’s) National Call on the HoUSed Campaign for Universal, Stable, & Affordable Housing. Baker spoke after a representative from the CFPB talked about…
Reuters investigates the big, deep-pocketed corporate landlords with property portfolios spanning multiple states that have been the most aggressive in filing eviction cases, even as they have thrived in the pandemic. Reuters, Apr 23, 2021: Special Report-Giant U.S. landlords…
The Wall Street Journal reports on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission beginning to investigate companies that may have broken a federal eviction moratorium during the health crisis. The agencies said they would focus on private-equity…
