The dealmakers running America's private equity firms see opportunity in one of the most distressed precincts of the U.S. economy: residential housing. The New York-based real estate buyout fund GTIS Partners will spend $1 billion by 2016 acquiring single-family homes to manage as rentals, founder Tom Shapiro said on Jan. 24. That followed announcements earlier in January that Gl Partners, a Menlo Park (Calif.) private equity fund, expects to invest $1 billion and Los Angeles-based Oaktree Capital Management will spend $450 million on similar housing deals. "We are starting to see this as a billion-dollar opportunity," says Shapiro.
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机译：经营美国私募股权公司的交易者看到了美国经济最苦恼的地区之一-住宅。创始人汤姆·夏皮罗（Tom Shapiro）于1月24日表示，总部位于纽约的房地产收购基金GTIS Partners将于2016年斥资10亿美元收购单户住宅，以管理租金。在此之前，1月份早些时候，Gl Partners，门洛帕克（加州私募股权基金，预计将投资10亿美元，洛杉矶的Oaktree Capital Management将在类似的住房交易上花费4.5亿美元。夏皮罗说：“我们开始将这视为一个十亿美元的机会。”
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