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Over the last decade, private equity and similar investment firms have bought up growing portions of the US housing market, acquiring apartments, single family homes, and manufactured home communities. Wall Street landlords now own the homes of millions…
The private equity giant’s forays into the single-family home rental and mortgage business have harmed renters, prospective homebuyers, and homeowners. Our new report, “Cerberus Capital Management’s three-headed attack on homeowners, tenants,” looks at private equity and debt firm Cerberus…
(pdf version) Over the last several years, the private equity and private funds industry has grown dramatically and, in the process, has come to touch more and more aspects of people’s lives. Private market assets under management hit an…
TPG Capital Partners with RV Horizons to Purchase 78 Manufactured Home Communities Based in San Francisco, California and Fort Worth, Texas, TPG Capital is a private equity firm with over $119 billion in assets under management. TPG has an extensive…
In a May 19 opinion piece, Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times highlighted the growing ownership by private equity firms of manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, drawing on the February 2019 report by the Private Equity Stakeholder…
Earlier this month, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, the Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), put out an update on private equity investment in single family rental homes.
The Associated Press last week published a story on growing investment by private equity firms in manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, citing a February report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, MHAction and the Americans for Financial…
Last Sunday, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver ran a long segment on the growing investments by private equity firms in manufactured home (i.e. mobile home) communities, threatening a source of affordable housing for millions of…
The Washington Post today ran a long article, “A billion-dollar empire made up of mobile homes” on how some of the largest private equity firms in the world, including The Blackstone Group, Apollo Global Management, TPG Capital, Brookfield Asset…
A new report “Private equity giants converge on manufactured homes” (available here – link) details how many of the largest private equity and real estate investors in the world, managing more than $1.77 trillion in assets, have converged on the…
Private equity firms KKR and Bain Capital, and real estate firm Vornado Realty Trust last year took retailer Toys “R” Us into bankruptcy. The retailer recently announced it is liquidating, closing all of its stores and laying off its…
From report “Private equity’s failing grade: Private equity investment in for-profit colleges” (Written jointly by Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform) In October 2017, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reported that students who…
