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Private Equity Stakeholder Project Executive Director Jim Baker testified at a Hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, along with affected renters, the National Low Income Housing Coalition and others on Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill.

Private Equity Stakeholder Project Executive Director Jim Baker will be joining affected renters, the National Low Income Housing Coalition and others at a hearing on Tuesday, July 27, testifying on the state of evictions during the coronavirus pandemic, the status…

Private equity firms and other large landlords are stepping up eviction actions ahead of the July 31 expiration of the CDC eviction moratorium even as renters struggle to access the billions of dollars in federal rental assistance that is still…

In December 2020, Chairwoman Waters secured $25 billion in emergency rental assistance in bipartisan COVID-19 relief legislation. In March 2021, key provisions from the Committee on Financial Services were included in the American Rescue Plan, including $21.6 billion…

NPR correspondent Chris Arnold has been reporting on the financial struggle millions of Americans are facing amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In his third piece on how Black renters face eviction at much higher rates, Arnold again reported on…

Evictions are just one of the headline risks that have cropped up around growing private equity investments in single-family rental homes. Concerns about private equity buyers inflating home prices and elbowing out first-time homebuyers have featured prominently in newspapers ranging…

Private equity, real estate, and debt firm Ares Management last year partnered with Pretium Partners to acquire home rental firm Front Yard Residential. Months ago, we shared our report and data with Ares management documenting Front Yard Residential’s…

In response to coverage by NPR and Bloomberg, Senate Banking Committee Chair Sherrod Brown is requesting a briefing by private equity firms Pretium Partners to talk about compliance with the CDC eviction moratorium and the company filing…

NPR shared the story of Katrina Chism, a single mother in Atlanta whose landlord is Front Yard Residential, owned by private equity firms Pretium Partners and Ares Management. According to Chism, her landlord refused to accept federal rental assistance money…

The National Housing Law Project, The National Low Income Housing Coalition, and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project delivered a letter earlier this month to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mark Calabria, urging him to take action against landlords…

CBS News featured research by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project which showed that large and private-equity backed landlords have been filing tens of thousands of evictions since the CDC’s eviction moratorium order was passed. Private equity firms and other…

In the face of the CDC evictions ban, $50 billion in federal rental assistance, and warnings by the FTC and CFPB, private equity firms and other corporate landlords are still insisting on evicting families during the pandemic, particularly families of…