LISC Leadership Series: Tenant Power, Private Equity, and the Eviction Crisis
Denise Scott, President of LISC, hosted a conversation exploring how tenants are pushing for solutions to rising rents and evictions, and to address private equity’s role in exacerbating the nation’s housing crisis.
Overview
Panelists discussed how tenants are organizing to save their homes and create more just local and national housing policies, as well as the role of private equity in fueling the housing crisis. The conversation explored the impact of housing speculation and private equity in the single-family and multi-family rental markets, the role that public policies and the actions of the Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) play in the housing crisis, and how tenants and community organizations are working to build power for a just housing future
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Host
- Denise Scott, President of LISC
Panelists
- Shanika Henderson, Organizer, and Roberto de la Riva, Co-Director, Inquilinxs Unidxs
- Elora Raymond, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Heather Vogell, Reporter, ProPublica
Moderator
- David M. Greenberg, Vice President, LISC Community Research and Impact
Additional reading
- From Foreclosure to Eviction: Housing Insecurity in Corporate-Owned Single-Family Rentals
- Gentrifying Atlanta: Investor purchases of Rental Housing, Evictions, and the Displacement of Black residents
- How Your Shadow Credit Score Could Decide Whether You Get an Apartment
- Rent Going Up? One Company's Algorithm Could Be Why
- Tenants Took on the Biggest Landlord in Minneapolis — And Won
- The Tenants Who Evicted Their Landlords
- When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord
LISC Resources
LISC research offers rigorous evidence that large landlords have reaped the greatest profits in communities of color, and that this speculation drives evictions and poor housing maintenance quality. But there’s good news too: affordable housing investments create better-maintained homes and remove buildings from the speculative market.