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Media scrutiny of Pretium Partners continues: How a billion dollar housing bet upended a Tennessee neighborhood
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…
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Toronto Star: Secret money. Elite Canadian families. And a corporate landlord accused of pandemic evictions
The Toronto Star traced the evolution of Pretium Partners, a private equity fund which is now a “real estate behemoth” devised by former Goldman Sachs executive Don Mullen who made a fortune predicting the U.S. housing collapse in 2008. Toronto…
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NPR: How the government helps investors buy mobile home parks, raise rent and evict people
NPR extended its ongoing investigation of corporate investor buy-ups of mobile home communities, flagging how companies such as Havenpark Communities are aided by billions of dollars of low-interest-rate loans backed by the federal government. And the volume of that financing…
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Post-moratorium, Pretium Partners Remains in the Spotlight Heading into 2022
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…
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Workers Strike, Demanding Dignity and Respect from Private Equity-Owned Bojangles Restaurants
Right before the Thanksgiving holiday, Bojangles restaurant workers in Burnsville, NC, participated in their second action against private equity-owned Bojangles. They began a week-long strike on November 23 against their employer’s mishandling of COVID cases and also for…
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With Billions of Dollars in Rental Assistance Still Available, Corporate Landlords Continue with Eviction Filings
Private equity firms and other corporate landlords filed to evict at least 44,762 residents in counties throughout Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arizona, Tennessee, and Nevada since the federal eviction moratorium was lifted. Corporate landlords have filed to evict at least…
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Warburg Pincus Continues with Oil and Gas Acquisitions Despite Announcement to Move Away From Fossil Fuel Investments
In the past two months, Warburg Pincus acquired two new oil and gas assets despite the private equity firm’s announcement that they are pivoting away from hydrocarbon investments and that their next flagship fund will be free of fossil…
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Financial Times: Cheering Shell’s Cambo exit may be premature
Using data and analysis from Private Equity Stakeholder Project research, a recent Financial Times editorial argued “Brown assets ought not to be private capital’s dirty secret: some transparency can be brought to bear, particularly on the larger private…
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Vice News: Zillow Sells Thousands of Homes to Controversial Rental Powerhouse
Reporting on how Zillow has agreed to sell 2,000 of its homes to Pretium Partners, “the second-largest single-family landlord in the country, a controversial and growing powerhouse that has faced allegations it evicted tenants during the national eviction moratorium…
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Deutsche Welle Reports on Private Equity Fossil Fuel Investments
Joining several other media outlets scrutinizing private equity’s role in the climate crisis, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported how some critics have warned that as traditional energy investors pull out, private equity firms will gain a larger share of the…
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Modern Healthcare: Why the Justice Department is targeting private equity
In another investigative piece on private equity’s “insatiable appetite for healthcare in recent years”, Modern Healthcare reported how the DOJ has won more than $43 million in settlement proceeds from private equity defendants across at least five such cases. Modern…
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