Louisville When it’s good for the hedge funds and real estate investment trusts (REITs), it’s almost never good for the rest of us, especially the beleaguered renters of America or anyone trying to move the next step to buy a home or get a mortgage. Blackstone, the mega-private equity fund, cashed in once again on …
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Want Our Vote, Talk to Me about Tenants
New Orleans It’s a crowded field for the Democratic nomination for president this time around, but some of the candidates are wising up a bit and realizing that, if you want to win and push new and different voters to the polls, you better have a real plan for renters and affordable housing, not …
Ending No-Fault Evictions in England
New Orleans ACORN has been in the headlines in the United Kingdom recently heralding the end of something called Section 21. It’s worth understanding fully, because this is a huge win for tenants and spells the end for so-called “no-fault” evictions which were poison for private renters and candy for the landlords. As the The …