Recently, news reports revealed that Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities, two of the largest corporate landlords in the United States, have started talks about a merger. What journalists didn’t bring up is that Equity and

Last week, Housing Is A Human Right and other housing and homeless organizations from across the United States met in New York City for the National Conference on Rent Control and Tenant Rights. Over the

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

The 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

Since 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 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

Activists 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 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

A 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

Recently, 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,