Tenants of rent-controlled apartments say that "predatory equity" firms "bent on turning affordable housing into cash machines" are buying up apartments and threatening rent-regulated buildings. About 10 percent of the rent-regulated stock around the city has been bought up by companies like Vantage Management, which made a huge buy recently of 9,000 apartments in Queens, Harlem and Washington Heights. [NYDN]
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