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Over the last 15 years, CIM has been the center of headlines in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, among other media outlets. The news stories have covered a range of issues: CIM’s…
Tenant advocates and government officials are expressing mounting concerns over the acceleration of corporate investment in housing. Housing financialization first gained momentum following the 2007-2008 mortgage crisis when Wall Street firms acquired foreclosed homes en masse. In recent years, the…
Brookfield’s Climate Paradox Climate Pledges vs. Fossil Fuel Reality December 2023 report Private equity giant Brookfield Corporation’s vast fossil fuel investments undermine its stated commitment to tackle climate change. With over $850 billion in assets under management—and despite a declared goal…
How Private Equity Profits Off of Disabled and Chronically Ill Americans In recent years, private equity firms have aggressively sought to acquire and control segments of the healthcare industry. A report from the Private…
First-Ever Scorecard Grades Biggest Private Equity Firms On Labor Practices A new labor scorecard developed by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project underscores a pattern of hazardous or negligent labor practices within the industry. All eleven private equity…
“YesCare Dodges Liability for Prison Conditions: Merger, Division, and Bankruptcy,” written by Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) researcher Michael Fenne, chronicles the consequences of YesCare’s private equity ownership. With a business model prioritizing high profits…
Prison life is entirely controlled by the state and corporations that service detention facilities— beyond various physical space constraints, incarcerated people have little choice in what they consume, how they communicate with loved ones, and the structure of…
PESP released its latest report: Private Equity Profits from Disaster. As climate change accelerates and impacts more communities around the world, the need for skilled labor in the disaster restoration industry grows. Increasingly,…
Private equity behemoth KKR’s portfolio companies have committed numerous environmental violations and engaged in unethical business practices while contributing to the climate crisis, as KKR put money into fossil fuel projects that run decidedly counter to its preferred public image…
Investments by private equity firms in nearly 2,700 oil and gas wells on federal and tribal lands across the western United States could leave taxpayers with a cleanup bill of up to $380 million, according to a new report released…
A new investigation by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) reveals, for the first time, the private equity (PE) owners of a healthcare company that broke promises to regulators when it moved to close a Chicago-area…
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…
