Corporate Landlords: The Wall Street Buyout of Suburbia: Private Equity, Foreclosures, and the Systematic Financialization of the Single-Family Home

The traditional American dream of homeownership is being systematically dismantled, not by a shifting cultural desire, but by the ruthless mathematical efficiency of Wall Street. In the aftermath of global financial instability, massive private equity firms and institutional hedge funds recognized an unprecedented opportunity. They stopped trading complex derivatives and began aggressively purchasing entire suburban neighborhoods, completely outbidding local families with infinite, untracea...