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Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), is a framework that prioritizes the consideration of the ethical impacts of investments, company leadership decisions, and even environmental waste in regards to how an organization or company functions. Though there are currently…
Citing PESP’s work throughout the article, Tablet investigated how Blackstone optimizes profits in its real estate holdings through: “maximum allowable rent increases, evictions, the rise of…
The GoldinFinch Tenant Association recently sent this letter to investors in Meadow Partners, a private equity firm. We are a group of longtime tenants living in East Village, New York who…
After reaching an agreement protecting workers’ right to organize a union at Blackstone-owned PSSI with the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), The Blackstone Group should use the lessons from one…
Over the last several years, Platinum Equity and its founder Tom Gores have faced significant criticism for its ownership of prison and jail telecommunications company Securus (also called Aventiv Technologies) and the high rates it charges…
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…
NBC investigated the behavior of private equity landlord Progress Residential, and featured Inquilinos Unidos Por Justicia/ United Renters for Justice (IX), a Minneapolis tenant organization that “has won rent freezes, refunds and other…
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…
Multiple examples have surfaced of companies owned by private equity firm Brookfield Asset Management spending resources on anti-union efforts instead of investing in their workforces and respecting the rights of workers to organize and collectively bargain. …
PESP researchers Valentina Dabos and Azani Creeks led a panel discussion on private equity and labor organizing at the 2023 Labor Research and Action Network (LRAN) conference in Washington, DC, earlier this month. Pointing out the…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has released “Part 2: Challenging State Preemption of Local Affordable Housing Initiatives” as part of its Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords report series. The series uplifts state…
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project has released “Part 2: Challenging State Preemption of Local Affordable Housing Initiatives” as part of its Tools for Tackling Corporate Landlords report series. The series uplifts state…
