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The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis released a new staff report with findings from its year-long investigation into the eviction practices of four large corporate landlords during the first 16 months of…
Private Equity Stakeholder Project Executive Director Jim Baker joined with representatives from the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and the Georgia Institute of Technology at the US House Committee on Financial Services: Where Have…
In May, North Carolina journalists launched an article series investigating the impact of Pretium and other corporate real estate investors on the state’s housing market. Charlotte Observer, May 9, 2022: Wall Street Landlords Are…
Tenants of HavenBrook Homes are taking action in response to what they say are prolonged health and safety issues in their rental homes. Minnesota Reformer, May 19, 2022: Tenants withhold rent from hedge-fund owned HavenBrook Homes to force repairs…
Citing landlord abuses and property neglect, tenants and homeowners associations are leading the pushback against private equity’s increasing investments in single family rentals. State officials and the Biden administration are also increasing pressure against institutional investors to keep housing affordable,…
In January the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs hosted a virtual briefing and listening session with renters from across the country to hear about their experiences living in rental properties owned by large corporate owners,…
On February 10, 2022, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that he had filed a lawsuit against Havenbrook Homes, Front Yard Residential, and Pretium Partners, which collectively own more than 600 single-family residential rental properties in Minnesota. The lawsuit…
Last Spring, More Perfect Union released a video that described how “the former head of mortgage and credit investments at Goldman Sachs, Don Mullen Jr. — the man who famously made millions off predicting and exacerbating the national housing crisis…
The US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs this week is holding a tenant listening session (February 8, 10:00 AM EST) and a hearing (February 10, 10:00 AM) on “How Institutional Landlords are Changing the Housing…
Private equity firms and other corporate landlords filed to evict at least 123,761 families in various counties in Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Nevada in 2021. Since the start of the pandemic, corporate landlords have filed at least…
The Washington Post, ICIJ and Telemundo published an investigation on how private equity firm Pretium Partners took advantage of the 2008 housing crisis to benefit the wealthy to the detriment of middle class families seeking housing. The Washington Post, December…
Throughout 2021, Pretium Partners was the object of much scrutiny for its treatment of tenants in the properties it owned. For instance, in response to coverage by NPR and Bloomberg in June, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod…
