Housing
The homewreckers: How Trump cronies are sabotaging the American dream
The story of one L.A. house illustrates the tens of thousands now off the market for working-class and first-time homebuyers.
Housing
Housing
Profiting off pain: Trump confidant cashed in on housing crisis
One of President Donald Trump’s closest friends and confidants took advantage of the Great Recession to build an unprecedented real estate business that makes him tantamount to a modern-day slumlord – buying up homes, bumping up rents and allowing the properties to fall into disrepair.
The Trump Era
After the bubble burst
This episode of Reveal takes you into the world of people who are still profiting from America’s housing bust, from rent-to-own investors in Detroit to President Donald Trump’s best friend, a real estate mogul.
Housing
Politicians express outrage about lending disparities
At the national and state levels, they vow to ensure people of color get equal access to home loans and the public gets access to lending information.
Housing
America’s largest private landlord faces civil rights lawsuit
The federal civil rights lawsuit alleges a blanket refusal to rent to tenants with criminal records.
Housing
Class-action suit against landlord giant gets go-ahead
A federal district court judge has given the go-ahead for tenants of one of the largest landlords in America to pursue a class-action lawsuit.
Housing
Foreclosures on seniors increased before Mnuchin joined administration
Government auditors also report the insurance fund for taxpayer-backed mortgages lost $14.2 billion.
Housing
ABC News investigates giant corporate landlord, citing Reveal’s exposé
Housing company representative defends its “professionalism, dedicated resources, and a lot of energy and desire to service our residents.”
Housing
Tenants demand rent freeze from a top U.S. corporate landlord
Tenants of one of America’s largest corporate landlords briefly occupied the San Francisco offices of the chairman of its board Thursday, delivering a petition signed by 1,400 people demanding a rent freeze in all of the company’s rental properties.
Housing
Nominee for banking post meets resistance due to fraud settlement
A whistleblower says “there shouldn’t even be a hearing” for Joseph Otting, Trump’s choice for the nation’s top banking regulator, due to an $89 million federal fraud settlement.
Housing
Tenants decry conditions, raised rent in Colony Starwood homes
Tenants who rent homes from one of America’s largest corporate landlords are asking the company to stop increasing their rent and address what they say is endemic neglect of the properties.
Housing
Federal agency holds closed-door meeting about single-family rentals
The Federal Housing Finance Agency held a closed-door meeting with industry executives to discuss “opportunities” in the single-family rental market.
Housing
Trump friend Thomas Barrack cashes out of Colony Starwood Homes
Thomas Barrack, a close confidant of President Donald Trump’s, has walked away from the rental housing empire he built following the housing bust, cashing out his ownership stake in a move likely to make him hundreds of millions of dollars. The move came late Friday, one day after Reveal published an exposé on the company he founded.
