The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. It’s been three years since
The Real Dirt: Capital Realty Group, Billionaire Steve Schwarzman, Corporate YIMBYs
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Sep. 30, 2025The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. For the past several weeks,
Tenants and Activists Around the World Must Band Together to Fight Corporate Landlords
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Sep. 24, 2025One of the big stories developing in the United States recently is that tenants and activists in cities all over the country have been banding together to fight Capital Realty Group, a New York-based corporate
The Real Dirt: The Shady Dealings of Corporate Landlords and California Apartment Association
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 27, 2025The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. Many of the largest corporate
Did Trump and Corporate Landlords Target Planned Parenthood and AIDS Healthcare Foundation?
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 20, 2025Last month, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction for Planned Parenthood that stops the Trump administration’s effort to essentially defund that organization. The political and legal issues involved in the Planned Parenthood
The Real Dirt: California YIMBY and Big Tech Kill Tenant Protections, YIMBY Action Parties Hard, Following Big Real Estate’s Money
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Jul. 31, 2025The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. This month, Housing Is A
Exclusive: Tech Execs and Venture Capitalists Spend Big to Help California YIMBY Kill Tenant Protections
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Jul. 22, 2025California YIMBY has a lot of explaining to do. While middle- and working-class tenants struggle to pay sky-high rents, wealthy tech executives and venture capitalists, most of whom are based in the Bay Area, are
Cities Across United States are Banning Price-Fixing Software for Rental Housing
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Jul. 16, 2025A growing movement to ban price-fixing software for rental housing continues to spread across the United States. As a result of the RealPage scandal, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and recently Hoboken have passed
As Californians Fought Corporate Landlords, YIMBY Action Partied with Big Real Estate’s Cash
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Jul. 08, 2025Last year, while Californians battled Big Real Estate to pass a pro-rent control ballot measure called Proposition 33, corporate landlords and other uber-wealthy real estate insiders shelled out cash to pay for a YIMBY Action
The Real Dirt: Price-Gouging, Predatory Evictions, Real Estate’s Hitman Problem
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Jun. 27, 2025The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. A Beverly Hills real estate