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Private equity giant Blackstone, $BX, has said this month that it was buying Tricon Residential, a Toronto-based landlord that owns 38,000 homes across the U.S. and Canada for $3.5 billion

Private equity giant Blackstone, $BX, has said this month that it was buying Tricon Residential, a Toronto-based landlord that owns 38,000 homes across the U.S. and Canada for $3.5 billion. Blackstone, renowned for leading Wall Street's acquisition of houses post the U.S. foreclosure crisis,
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Elizabeth Warren and three other Democrats urged Fed Chair Jerome Powell to bring down interest rates at the upcoming Fed meeting to expand affordable housing

Senator Elizabeth Warren and three other Democratic lawmakers are urging Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to consider lowering interest rates at the upcoming Fed meeting to address the affordability challenges in the housing market. In a letter addressed to Powell, the senators emphasized the impact of current interest rates on
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The White House is demanding the heads of federal departments and agencies begin personally tracking efforts to get government workers to return to the office

The White House is demanding the heads of federal departments and agencies begin personally tracking efforts to get government workers to return to the office, per Bloomberg. White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients emphasized the need for federal agencies to accelerate their return-to-office efforts in a memo obtained by
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