PESP expertise featured in coverage of push to ban investors from owning single-family homes

Since President Trump announced his desire to ban institutional investors like private equity firms from owning single-family housing, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project’s original research and commentary has featured prominently in news coverage of the subject. 

Trump backs ban on institutional investor home purchases

BBC
January 7, 2026

Sam Garin, a spokesperson for an advocacy group that has raised alarm about the effect of private equity ownership on renters, said her group welcomed Trump’s move. “We eagerly await the details of what this policy will actually entail,” said Garin, of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, adding: “But we urge policymakers not to stop there.”

Trump says he’s banning institutional investors from scooping up single-family homes

New York Post
January 7, 2026

Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone is among those hoovering up homes – last year controlling more than 230,000 units as the largest private-equity owner of US apartments, according to  the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a nonprofit watchdog group.

Trump says U.S. to ban large investors from buying homes

CNBC
January 7, 2026

Blackstone was the largest private-equity owner of apartments in the U.S. with more than 230,000 units, according to data from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project released last year. Blackstone in recent years has spent billions acquiring real estate companies such as Tricon Residential, American Campus Communities and AIR Communities.

As Trump calls for ban on corporate homeownership, Nevada Dems push their bill to monitor it

Nevada Current
January 14, 2026

The announcement has resulted in some Republicans jumping on the bandwagon, even those who have been hostile to efforts to rein in the industry, said Sam Garin, the senior communications coordinator for the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.

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The HOME Act is just one approach to addressing the housing crisis, Garin said. 

As the nation struggles to address the housing crisis, which include rising rents, limited affordable and available housing, and little tenant protections, there should be different policies adopted at both the federal and state level, she added. 

Both Congress and state legislatures need to look at many solutions from landlord registries to rent stabilization. 

“It’s the kind of thing where we need to come at it from a bunch of different angles to actually address it,” Garin said. “Obviously we support a cap and think it’s a really great idea. It doesn’t have to be a cap. What we could also see is changes to the tax code that reduce incentives for private equity firms or other institutional investors to be buying up these houses and profiting from them.”

Senate Pushes Forward Major Housing Bill With Trump’s Investor Ban

Realtor.com
March 4, 2026

This new bill has some provisions that give investors seven years to dispose of some homes. And the renters in those homes would be given a 30-day right of first refusal to purchase the property. Violators could face a civil penalty of up to $1 million, or three times the purchase price of the property, whichever is greater.

This language has sparked some debate. Jim Baker of the Private Equity Stakeholder Project, a critic of private capital firms, criticizes “major loopholes for private equity and other Wall Street landlords.”