This means that some 70,000 American tenants' rent money is being funneled, in part, into a company linked to the displacement and genocide of Palestinians 6,000 miles away, while facing rent hikes and eviction filings themselves. (10/10)

Read it all here: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

In 2024, the American Friends Service Committee put Electra on a list of companies contributing to "Israel’s prolonged military occupations, apartheid, and genocide.”

The same year, an Electra executive described American Landmark as a “big winning card” for the company. (9/10)

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights cites Electra in its database of over 150 companies doing business in the settlements. Research groups like Who Profits also have extensive profiles of Electra's business activities. (8/10)
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On top of displacing these U.S. tenants, American Landmark is owned by Electra, an Israeli conglomerate.

Electra conducts extensive business in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which drive many thousands of Palestinians from their homes. (7/10)

He continued: “We typically raise the rent anywhere from $100 to $400, so some people are absolutely displaced."

Based on the company’s “modeling,” Lubeck said, only “55 percent of existing residents [are expected to] stay,” while the remaining 45 percent “move out.” (6/10)

When I spoke with Lubeck, he denied that American Landmark’s practices are predatory, but confirmed that rent increases and displacement are part of the company’s strategy.

"The first analysis we do is: How much is the rent going to go up, and how many can afford to stay” (5/10)

These tenants reported a wide array of issues they say led to their eviction cases—from steep rent increases to a blizzard of fees.

"I feel like they're predatory," one tenant told me. "You want to increase the homelessness rate because we’re short a couple of dollars?" (4/10)

Over the last year, I reviewed thousands of eviction records from dozens of American Landmark’s properties and interviewed 43 of their tenants who faced eviction cases in Charlotte, Summerville, and Jacksonville.

I even interviewed the company's CEO, Joseph Lubeck. (3/10)

American Landmark boasts roughly 34,000 units, home to some 70,000 tenants, concentrated in 111 mega-complexes across eight Southern states, particularly North Carolina, Florida, and Texas.

They are the country's 34th largest landlord, and have a private equity structure. (2/10)

Last fall, I investigated this landlord, Capital Realty Group, for allowing over a dozen tenants in one New Haven complex to develop severe respiratory conditions from untreated mold.

Now, Capital Realty's tenants across the U.S. are unionizing to improve conditions inthesetimes.com/article/mold...

A Mamdani win would freeze rents for 4 years for 2 million+ rent-stabilized tenants, who disproportionately vote less, in NYC.

"Tenants are a sleeping giant," @ceaweaver tells me for @inthesetimes.com. "If you could wake up the tenant vote, that would be an unstoppable force in New York politics.”

“They’re picking up folks who were literally just going about making their daily bread and terrorizing them in their place of work," Nuncio told me.

See below for a way to support the families of the abducted garment workers: www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-aid...