YIMBYism seriously popped up in California in 2017 when Big Tech executives founded California YIMBY, a statewide lobbying group largely funded by tech industry hotshots. Since then, California YIMBY has pushed housing policies that impact

The California Apartment Association and many of the largest corporate landlords in the United States are now gearing up to kill a pro-rent control ballot measure in Redwood City. Last month, the powerful lobbying group,

In its widely read annual report, the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies made one thing perfectly clear: the government – federal, state, and local – must build more affordable housing. Things are so bad

Corporate landlords Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities have officially merged to form the largest apartment real estate investment trust in the United States. This is no small thing: Equity and AvalonBay own thousands of apartments

Near the very end of the report for the most recent Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, there’s a statistic that hasn’t gotten much media attention, but is extremely alarming: homelessness among adults aged 55 or

One of the most fascinating reads right now is not Theo of Golden or London Falling or The Calamity Club. It’s a 322-page report by United Nations-Habitat called The Global Housing Crisis: Pathways to Action,

California State Senate candidate Brian Goldsmith has some explaining to do… His nonprofit has direct financial ties to corporate landlord Blackstone Group, which spent millions of dollars to kill pro-rent control measures in California, and

Developers of affordable housing in California already have a rough time of it: funding is hard to secure; construction costs spiral; cities put up a fight for one reason or another. But Los Angeles’s bizarro

In San Pablo, California, tenants and activists have placed a rent stabilization measure on the local ballot, aiming to rein in predatory landlords. Located in Northern California, San Pablo joins Salinas and Redwood City that

In his first pledge as the United Kingdom’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham has promised to end long-term “rough sleeping” through increased investment in a number of homeless programs. While his commitment is welcomed, any