corporate landlords

“We have seen corporate landlords—who own a larger share of the rental market than ever before—use inflation as an excuse to hike rents and reap excess profits beyond what should be considered fair and reasonable.”

Reaction to the housing crisis in California has led to a series of gains for tenants, including a new Renters’ Caucus.

Avian flu gave companies cover to price gouge. Could the attention to lack of housing supply do the same for landlords?

Tenant organizing in Baltimore today is building on a rich legacy of tenant resistance in the city where residential redlining made its debut.

Some leases plainly contradict state law or include questionable, punitive, or egregiously anti-tenant clauses.

Shelterforce recently hosted a conversation about how to fight, and win, against corporate landlords and their extractive business models. Watch the video or read the transcript.

As more and more affordable homes are gobbled up by corporate landlords, prospective Black homebuyers are seeing opportunities for homeownership dry up.

It’s difficult to know who owns a property because corporate landlords and investors tend to structure their business as limited liability companies, or LLCs.

When the pandemic hit, real estate firms gladly took government assistance to keep their businesses afloat as they faced financial hardships. Then they turned around and evicted scores of tenants enduring the same COVID-induced difficulties.

Did we want to bail out corporate landlords or help renters? Because we’re doing the former.