Landlords
Equity Residential purchased Portside Towers in 2019. Tenants say the management started to increase prices substantially after giving renters concessions during the Covid-19 pandemic. The 527-unit building is located roughly 20 minutes away from the World Trade Center, on the shoreline of Jersey City, New Jersey. A group of tenants at the tower is involved […]
DC’s attorney general has sued 14 of the city’s largest landlord firms, claiming they entered into agreements with a property management software firm to keep rent prices high in a city with a housing affordability crisis. From a report: The complaint, filed earlier today by Attorney General Brian Schwalb, focuses on the multifamily landlords’ use […]
A new study conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research found that most U.S. landlords are committing housing discrimination by responding less to applicants with Black and Hispanic names as opposed to their white counterparts. Bloomberg reports researchers used fictional renters with names most commonly associated with white, Black and Hispanic origins and then […]
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