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In January, Congress appropriated over $46 billion in direct financial assistance to support renters. Nevertheless, corporate landlords continued with eviction filings, filing more than 79,000 eviction actions since the start of the year. $30 billion of the funds appropriated were…
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, October 5, 2021: As Catholic order fought sex abuse claims, secret trusts devoted to it poured millions into American rental properties The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 150 media partners recently…
Since the start of the pandemic, private equity firms and other corporate landlords have filed to evict more than 124,000 families in counties throughout Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Nevada. These eviction actions took place despite the existence of…
The Toronto Star reported how the top executive of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP), which manages the retirement funds of most Canadian federal employees, defended a controversial $700 million investment with private equity firm Pretium Partners in single-family…
Four private equity-owned mobile home companies were the subject of a recent investigative report by the Denver Post. Denver Post, September 23, 2021: Four corporate owners generate a quarter of complaints from Colorado’s mobile home residents They include RHP…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) has submitted testimony for the U.S. Senate Banking Committee Economic Policy Subcommittee October 20 hearing: “Protecting Companies and Communities from Private Equity Abuse.” PESP’s written testimony for the US Senate Banking…
In January 2021, private equity firms Pretium Partners and Ares Management acquired Front Yard Residential/ Havenbrook Homes for an estimated $2.5 billion making this deal the Single-Family Rental industry’s first public-to-private transaction.[1] Pretium Partners now owns an estimated 66,000…
The Pennsylvania Public Schools Employees Retirement System, a $70 billion pension fund that oversees pensions for more than 500,000 working and retired teachers and other school workers, voted almost unanimously against a recommendation of investing another $25 million into one…
Marketplace reported on the growing concern about the influence of big corporate landlords in the U.S. housing market. Marketplace, September 29, 2021: Private equity money changed the housing market, then the pandemic hit While most of the country’s rental…
Despite the existence of multiple national programs intended to halt evictions and assist indebted renters, private equity firms and other corporate landlords have filed to evict more than 106,000 families in counties throughout Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and…
Private equity industry publication PERE’s September cover story focuses on private equity’s growing investments in single-family rental homes. In addition to filing to evict thousands of residents during the pandemic, corporate owners of single family homes are influencing market dynamics…
