Private equity and other private funds control growing portions of the economy, including in areas crucial to all of our lives, like housing and care–typically increasing prices and decreasing quality. These billionaire factories repeatedly take advantage of loopholes and exemptions to funnel money to their executives at the expense of workers, patients, consumers, real economy businesses, and a sustainable planet. We can change the rules to stop their extremes of extraction.
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Real Reform to Confront Private Equity Takeover of the Nation’s Housing
Rising housing costs are a critical driver of the current affordability crisis, and they cannot be addressed without genuinely confronting the role of private equity and big investors buying up the nation’s housing stock.
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Truthout: Grassroots Organizers in Wisconsin Offer Blueprint for Beating Back Data Centers
A recent Americans for Financial Reform report also notes that private equity has “established a foothold in all parts of the data center lifecycle,” which includes everything from “assembling land where future data center campuses will be built” to “direct data center operation.”
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Economic Policy Institute: Trump is pushing to include risky assets like crypto and private equity in 401(k)s
A recent overview published by the American Federation of Teachers, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, and the American Association of University Professors examined this question closely and cast doubt on the value of alternative investments for pension funds, especially when adjusting for risk and illiquidity.
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Center for Economic and Policy Research: Is Trump’s Move to Rein in Private Equity For Real?
There is litlte doubt that instituational investors are a real presence in the housing market. As Americans for Financial Reform’s Caroline Nagy pointed out at a recent House Subcommittee hearing, prior to 2011 there was no single investor that owned more than 1,000 single-family homes; by 2021, 32 of these companies owned 446,000 homes. And…
Real Reform to Confront Private Equity Takeover of the Nation’s Housing
