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  • Senators take aim at big private equity landlords as rents soar

    Senators take aim at big private equity landlords as rents soar

    As Wall Street financiers snapped up huge swaths of the nation’s rental housing market in recent years, the deals sailed through unchallenged. Now, with the costs of renting an apartment or home out of reach for a growing number of Americans, four Democratic senators say these transactions need more scrutiny.  Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sent…