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Taking on a Billionaire Landlord in the Twin Cities
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YES! Magazine - Economy
When they do send someone, it’s some Craigslist contractor that does a half-baked job.”In North Minneapolis, the corporate landlord HavenBrook Homes owns 215 single-family homes, scattered over dozens of residential blocks.
“We found there were four or five HavenBrook rental homes on a single block, but the neighbors didn’t know they had the same landlord,” said Chloe Jackson, a veteran organizer with Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia/United Renters for Justice.
Organizing tenants of an absentee corporate landlord during a pandemic has its challenges, but Jackson and her co-workers are undeterred.
Billionaire Landlords Consolidate Ownership as Eviction Crisis LoomsIn 2018, HavenBrook Homes was purchased by Front Yard Residential, an investor group based in the Virgin Islands.
Some recommendations are focused on the discouraging large-scale corporate ownership, such as what tenants are experiencing at HavenBrook Homes.
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