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In December 2020, Chairwoman Waters secured $25 billion in emergency rental assistance in bipartisan COVID-19 relief legislation. In March 2021, key provisions from the Committee on Financial Services were included in the American Rescue Plan, including $21.6 billion…
NPR correspondent Chris Arnold has been reporting on the financial struggle millions of Americans are facing amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In his third piece on how Black renters face eviction at much higher rates, Arnold again reported on…
Business Insider recently reported how Wall Street firms have been buying up thousands of homes — to rent them out to the same population they’re outbidding. Business Insider, June 16, 2021: Wall Street firms like BlackRock are snapping up…
The mobile home financing market is dominated by five lenders, including 21st Mortgage and Vanderbilt Mortgage — two units of Clayton Homes, a Berkshire Hathaway business. Forty-two percent of manufactured home owners who borrow to buy a mobile home typically…
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…
