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The Washington Post reports on Treasury Department officials being given nearly $50 billion in emergency aid for renters who have fallen behind, and are racing to distribute it through hundreds of state, local and tribal housing agencies, some of which…
Business Insider reveals that the driving force of the evictions crisis is how corporate landlords are becoming an increasingly dominant player in the U.S. rental market, and they are more likely to throw their tenants out onto the street.
CNBC shared the story of what happened when Victor Washington fell nearly four months behind on his rent last fall and winter. He had health issues that caused him to use up his paid sick days, and was forced…
“Do you remember the old eighties game Mouse Trap?” The New Yorker follows the harrowing journey of one mobile-home resident’s fight against the inequities and sorrow caused by investment firms’ increasing ownership of manufactured home communities. New Yorker,…
Using very moving, sometimes chilling examples of the consequences faced by ordinary families who live in single family rental housing owned by private equity and big corporate firms, The Toronto Star presents arguments on how that industry “is structurally…
Private equity and debt firm Oaktree Capital owns thousands of apartments around the US. Despite the CDC eviction moratorium, affiliates of Oaktree Capital have continued to file and advance residential eviction cases. Oaktree Capital affiliates have filed at least 270…
Outsized Impact on Marginalized Communities Private equity firms and other corporate landlords have filed to evict more than 16,000 people in the first two months of 2021 even with a nationwide eviction moratorium ordered by the Centers for Disease Control…
The nation’s largest corporate landlords received about $320 million in federal COVID-19 relief subsidies, but still filed thousands of evictions — even during the CDC moratorium. After months of research into eviction data and COVID-19 subsidies, Jobs With Justice…
The nation’s largest corporate landlords received about $320 million in federal COVID-19 relief subsidies, but still filed thousands of evictions — even during the CDC moratorium. After months of research into eviction data and COVID-19 subsidies, Jobs With Justice…
While the recent surge in COVID-19 cases around the US has overwhelmed hospitals and led governments to reimpose restrictions, many private equity firms and other corporate landlords that own apartment buildings, rental homes, and mobile home parks do not seem…
On September 1, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a moratorium on residential evictions through the end of the year to help limit the spread of COVID-19, noting:…
Earlier this week, NBC News featured a lengthy investigative story by Gretchen Morgenson on evictions by private equity firms and other corporate landlords since the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced an eviction moratorium on September 1…
