A disturbing new report by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has found that more than half of the households in the city of Los Angeles are drowning under high housing costs. Worse, …
Unaffordable Rents Linked to More Deaths, Says Eviction Lab
Over the years, Housing Is A Human Right has routinely said that the housing affordability crisis is a public health issue. Now Eviction Lab, the highly regarded research institute at Princeton University, has found that …
Arnel Management Company Helped Kill Rent Control Expansion. Now It Improperly Withheld Security Deposits.
First, Arnel Management Company helped to kill two pro-rent control ballot measures in California by contributing a total of $500,000. Now the corporate landlord has reached a settlement with California Attorney General Rob Bonta for …
Why Are California Business Roundtable and Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles Using a Shell Game to Kill Rent Control?
A Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that the California Business Roundtable and the Apartment Association of Greater Los Angeles are using a shell game to finance their effort to kill the expansion …
Who’s Funding Big Real Estate’s Sneaky Anti-Rent Control Effort in California? Here Are Their Names
Housing Is A Human Right recently revealed that the California Apartment Association and corporate landlords are playing a sneaky shell game to fund their anti-rent control effort in California, trying to avoid scrutiny from the …
Corporate Landlords Are Secretly Funneling Millions to Anti-Rent Control Campaigns in California
Real estate companies have never been wild about transparency, routinely hiding behind LPs and LLCs so the public doesn’t know who owns a property. Corporate landlords are now taking that shadiness to another level, secretly …
Federal Judge Says Tenants Can Move Forward With Lawsuit Against RealPage and Corporate Landlords
December 28 wasn’t a good day for RealPage and corporate landlords Essex Property Trust, Equity Residential, and Camden Property Trust. That was when Chief U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw ruled that tenants in multiple states, …
Rent Control is Only Way to Rein In Corporate Landlords
Time and again, Californians have seen that rent control is the only way to rein in the predatory business practices of corporate landlords. From the ongoing RealPage Scandal to the “Dirty Deeds” section of The …
Boys in the Band: Who are the Democrats Fighting to Stop Rent Control in California?
The mainstream media rarely, if ever, exposes this ugly fact, but a group of powerful Democrats has been carrying out Big Real Estate’s unscrupulous, multi-million-dollar push to kill the expansion of rent control in California. …
Will the California Apartment Association’s Billionaires Club Destroy California?
A new Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that a group of multi-billion-dollar real estate companies have shelled out millions to the California Apartment Association’s political committees, aiming to upend state and local …