California State Sen. Scott Wiener continues to roll in campaign cash from Big Real Estate. Housing Is A Human Right examined Wiener’s 2020 re-election campaign contributions between February and June of 2019, finding that he …
Notorious Attorney Dennis Block Fuels Eviction Crisis
Eviction attorney Dennis Block boasts to have “evicted more tenants than any other human being on the planet Earth.” He describes rent control as a “cancer,” and cheers on rising rents on Twitter. He’s made …
‘When We Fight, We Win!’
This past weekend, inside the Morningside High School gymnasium in Inglewood, hundreds of housing activists and renters, of all ages and colors, sat together in the bleachers and talked solutions. In front of them, Lupe …
The Housing Affordability Crisis Fuels L.A.’s Homeless Emergency
The 16 percent and 12 percent jumps in homelessness in Los Angeles city and county, respectively, sadly underline that we are facing a devastating humanitarian crisis. In total, there are 58,936 homeless people in L.A. …
Unfair Rents and Gentrification Spark People Power in Sacramento
Across the street from the California State Capitol, during her lunch break, Erica Jaramillo, a government worker and Sacramento Tenants Union member, contemplates the frontline battles of the housing affordability crisis. The sudden evictions, the …
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Boldly Tackles Housing Affordability Crisis
For 32 years, AIDS Healthcare Foundation has boldly tackled public health crises — from the AIDS epidemic to sexually transmitted disease outbreaks to the deadly Ebola crisis in Africa. That’s especially true when governments and …
Columbia University Professor Debunks Anti-Rent Control Arguments
In recent months, a growing list of top experts, including academics from USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley, have been debunking anti-rent control arguments. Now Columbia University Business School Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh joins the ranks. …
Scott Wiener’s Appalling Legacy as San Francisco Supervisor
Before Scott Wiener became a state senator in 2016, he served as a San Francisco supervisor for six years. Known as a “corporate Democrat,” he aggressively pushed policies that benefited his campaigns contributors in the …
Selling Out California: Scott Wiener’s Money Ties to Big Real Estate
Housing Is A Human Right has released today a special report about California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s troubling financial connections to the real estate industry. It reveals that Wiener — who aggressively pushes a controversial …
Will Federal ‘Opportunity Zones’ Hyper-Gentrify America?
Wall Street is euphoric over federal “opportunity zones.” Many local politicians are wild with excitement. Accelerator for America, a kind of think-tank founded by U.S. mayors, will soon hold a summit at Stanford University to …