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Mac Properties continue to put profit over people during the Covid-19 public health crisis, filing for evictions and using the threat of eviction to coerce tenants into waiving their First Amendment rights. Read
Hyde Park tenants came together to demand rent relief on May 1st. Practicing social distancing, tenants marched through the neighborhood, ending at Mac Properties leasing office on 53rd Street. Read more in the
Hyde Park landlord TLC is trying to throw people out of their homes, despite a court freeze on evictions, and despite a state-wide stay-at-home order. Read more at the Hyde Park Herald: TLC
The Covid-19 pandemic has led long simmering housing problems to boil over. Chicago news outlets have recently covered housing justice issues here: May rent is almost due, and Pritzker ‘holds all the cards’
Mac Properties is the largest landlord in Hyde Park, but who are they? Mac is the public-facing arm of Antheus Capital, an investment vehicle registered in New Jersey. Their business model speaks volumes