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Billionaire Corporate Landlord Throws Extravagant Party with Your Hard-Earned Cash

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Sep. 11, 2026
A little more than a week ago, the Daily Mail reported that billionaire corporate landlord Stephen Schwarzman (pictured in top hat above) was gearing up for a “lavish party” in Scotland that would feature dancers,

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How Can We Fix America’s Shocking Lack of Affordable Housing?

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Sep. 10, 2026
In its recent annual report, the National Low Income Housing Coalition laid out some shocking facts. First, no state or major metropolitan area in America has an adequate supply of affordable housing for extremely-low-income renters.

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Questions About YIMBYism? Read Housing Is A Human Right’s Top-Notch Coverage for the Hard Facts.

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Sep. 03, 2026
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

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California Apartment Association Gears Up for Rent Control Battle in Redwood City

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Sep. 02, 2026
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,

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Harvard Report Says Government Must Urgently Build Millions of Affordable-Housing Units

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 27, 2026
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

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Will the Mega-Merger of Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Hurt Tenants?

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 26, 2026
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

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Homelessness Among Seniors Spikes in Los Angeles County, But It’s Not Hopeless

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 20, 2026
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

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There’s Only One Must-Read Right Now – and it’s a Housing Report by the United Nations. Really.

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 13, 2026
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,

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Is California State Senate Candidate Brian Goldsmith Connected to Anti-Rent Control Corporate Landlord Blackstone?

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 11, 2026
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

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Will Los Angeles Politicians Fix City Hall’s Bizarro Bureaucracy and Save Lives? (We Have Some Suggestions)

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Aug. 06, 2026
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