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PESP and Manufactured Housing Action have released the Private Equity Manufactured Housing Tracker A current list of private equity-owned manufactured home parks in the U.S. Updated July 2025 Key Points Over the past 20…
An intricate network of housing industry groups, often backed by corporate landlords, are actively blocking solutions that would alleviate the worst aspects of the current housing crisis and improve affordability, according to a new report. …
This spring, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project launched the Private Equity State Risk Index, a groundbreaking tool aimed at assessing the impacts of private equity on different states. The Private Equity State Risk Index provides stakeholders…
This past week, Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm, held its global limited partner (LP) conference in Boca Raton, Florida. A limited partner in private equity or venture capital refers to an individual or entity that provides capital…
This month, private equity firm Blackstone, the world’s largest landlord, finalized its acquisition of Tricon Residential, expanding its inventory of single-family rental homes to 66,000 properties in the U.S. Since its announcement in January, the deal…
Corporate landlords have a large amount of control over the US housing market. [1] This places them in a unique position of having enough power to impact the class and racial makeups of certain communities.
On March 15, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced that he reached a settlement with Progress Residential, HavenBrook Homes, and related companies for his February 2022 lawsuit.[1] The lawsuit alleged that the “syndicate of corporations”[2] under-maintained…
A piece in Popular Information contrasts recent reporting on a so-called “explosion” in squatting cases with the very real affordable housing crisis plaguing tenants across the United States. Popular Information, March 26, 2024:…
Today, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP), a nonprofit watchdog of the private equity industry and Wall Street, launches the Private Equity State Risk Index, a groundbreaking tool aimed at assessing the impacts of private equity (PE)…
Despite private equity’s immense impact on housing markets, the average person knows little about how the industry functions. For advocates and tenants organizing in private equity-owned properties, this can pose some challenges. To help bridge this…
In January, private equity giant Blackstone announced plans to acquire real estate firm Tricon Residential. Blackstone, which is already the largest landlord in the nation and the world, would add 38,000 single family rental properties in the U.S.
Following the announcement that private equity giant Blackstone plans to acquire Tricon Residential, Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and partners UNITE HERE Local 11, AFSCME Local 3299, and the Alliance of…
