Greystar, the largest corporate landlord in the United States, seems willing to do anything to pump up profits – even if that means trying to rip off a 93-year-old mother or carrying out deceptive advertising


Will Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass Utilize Long-Term Solutions for the Homelessness Crisis?
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Apr. 07, 2026The Los Angeles Times recently reported a number of unsettling findings about how Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is addressing the homelessness crisis, revealing that 40 percent of unhoused participants of her Inside Safe program

The Citywide Devastation of the Ellis Act in Los Angeles
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 27, 2026Since 2001, the Ellis Act, a controversial state law that allows landlords to evict tenants in rent-controlled buildings and turn them into pricey condominiums and boutique hotels, has devastated Los Angeles’s affordable housing stock. From

The Real Estate Industry Continues to Use the Ellis Act to Destroy Affordable Housing in California
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 20, 2026The real estate industry continues to use a little-known state law called the Ellis Act to destroy tens of thousands of affordable housing apartments in California, fueling the housing affordability and homelessness crises. Housing activists

Will U.S. Tenants Learn From Pro-Rent Control Demonstration in England?
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 11, 2026Activists and tenants in England have called for a nationwide, pro-rent control demonstration, taking place next month on April 18. More than 40 organizations, including the London Renters Union and Greater Manchester Tenants Union, are

Are Big Real Estate and YIMBYs Totally Wrong About How to Solve the Housing Affordability Crisis?
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 06, 2026Are Big Real Estate and YIMBYs totally wrong about their never-ending push to solve the housing affordability crisis through a trickle-down agenda? Housing Is A Human Right and many housing justice groups believe so, and

Essex Property Trust Spent $60.1M to Kill Rent Control and Influence Politicians in California
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 25, 2026A Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that between 2018 and 2025, Essex Property Trust, one of the largest corporate landlords in the United States, shelled out a whopping $60.1 million in campaign

Rent Stabilization is an ‘Effective Approach,’ Says Top Urban Planning Professor
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 13, 2026Recently, Edward Goetz, an award-winning professor of urban and regional planning and director of Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota, wrote an important op-ed for the Boston Globe. In it,

Zillow’s Chief Economist is Still Right About the Dire Need for More Affordable Housing
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 05, 2026Nearly 10 years ago, on July 28, 2016, Zillow Chief Economist Dr. Svenja Gudell released a “Zillow analysis” about the kinds of apartments built in America – luxury units compared to affordable. It was a

Rent Control is One Part of the Answer
In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 16, 2026Whenever billionaire corporate landlords and YIMBYs counter pro-rent control advocates, they routinely use a false argument: rent control alone won’t solve the housing affordability crisis. It’s a false argument because housing activists have never made
