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The mobile home financing market is dominated by five lenders, including 21st Mortgage and Vanderbilt Mortgage — two units of Clayton Homes, a Berkshire Hathaway business. Forty-two percent of manufactured home owners who borrow to buy a mobile home typically…
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…
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…
Modern Healthcare investigated how the complex ownership structures of nursing homes — an already fragmented section of the healthcare industry — make it hard for policymakers and families to know which facilities are owned by private equity investors or how…
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…
Last week, officials with the Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Board sent out letters to dozens of debt collectors and major landlords who collectively house more than two million people, including the The Carlyle Group, Morgan Stanley,…
In its bid to acquire investment-starved newspaper chain Tribune Publishing, the hedge fund Alden Global Capital vowed to provide $375 million in cash to the owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and others. But industry and financial experts…
Pensions & Investments reports on the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s scrutiny of private equity firms taking debt-funded dividends from health care companies they own, even as the world continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. P&I, Apr 21, 2021: Non-profit…
Reuters investigates the big, deep-pocketed corporate landlords with property portfolios spanning multiple states that have been the most aggressive in filing eviction cases, even as they have thrived in the pandemic. Reuters, Apr 23, 2021: Special Report-Giant U.S. landlords…
The Wall Street Journal reports on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission beginning to investigate companies that may have broken a federal eviction moratorium during the health crisis. The agencies said they would focus on private-equity…
The Hill reports on the calls for the federal government to step up enforcement of the CDC eviction moratorium as private equity firms and other corporate landlords have filed to evict residents despite the ban. The Hill, Apr 15,…
Citing testimony given at a March 25 House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight on private equity’s expanded role in the U.S. health-care system, Pensions & Investments reports that academic studies are starting to show that certain investments in the…
