From 2015 to 2017, the company filed 1,178 eviction cases 374 of those were executed. Samios did provide Shelterforce with some information he called his “back of the napkin” figures: WinnCompanies manages 7,304 affordable units in Boston. counties don’t publish yearly eviction information, and there’s no federal government tracking. Even at the government level, one-third of U.S. The company hadn’t previously tracked its own eviction rates or reasons for evicting, which is typical most landlords don’t. WinnCompanies learned it was the largest landlord in the city of Boston and, “we were also responsible for a fairly high rate of evictions in the city, and that’s not something we expected,” says Trevor Samios, senior vice president of Connected Communities, WinnCompanies’ resident services department. The group used company-provided information from 2015 through 2017 and data from the local housing court system to determine which landlords were doing the most evicting. In 2018 WinnCompanies and other large Boston-area property managers were invited to join a newly formed Eviction Prevention Task Force, run by the Office of Housing Stability within Boston’s Department of Neighborhood Development. But executives at Boston-based WinnCompanies-which manages approximately $14 billion worth of largely affordable and military housing in 550 developments across 22 states-recently learned an unpleasant fact and knew the organization needed help from someone like Rose. So taking a job as a legal consultant for the nation’s largest for-profit affordable housing landlord might seem an odd choice. Tenants’ rights attorney Jay Rose spent four-plus decades waging legal battles on behalf of poor folks.