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CBC: Big Investors Eye Canada’s Home Market

A recent article from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) gives light to concerns that private equity and other institutional investors could soon come to dominate Canada’s housing market. This problem is already widespread…

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ProPublica: When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord

While the 2009 recession was a financial sinkhole for millions of Americans with more than 3.7 million households being foreclosed upon, ProPublica reported on how private equity-backed companies scooped up tens of thousands of single-family homes lost to foreclosure at…

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Pandora Papers Investigation Reveals How PE Firm Pensam Capital Invested Money from a Troubled Roman Catholic Order in US Apartment Buildings that Evicted Residents During the Pandemic

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, October 5, 2021: As Catholic order fought sex abuse claims, secret trusts devoted to it poured millions into American rental properties The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and 150 media partners recently…

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