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Cities Across United States are Banning Price-Fixing Software for Rental Housing

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jul. 16, 2025
A growing movement to ban price-fixing software for rental housing continues to spread across the United States. In the aftermath of the ongoing RealPage scandal, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and recently Hoboken have

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As Californians Fought Corporate Landlords, YIMBY Action Partied with Big Real Estate’s Cash

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jul. 08, 2025
Last 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

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The Real Dirt: Price-Gouging, Predatory Evictions, Real Estate’s Hitman Problem

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jun. 27, 2025
A Beverly Hills real estate agent not only ignored a California law, but grossly violated it. That’s what California Attorney General Rob Bonta had found recently, announcing charges against Iman Eshaghyan for “allegedly advertising, listing,

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Want to Read Our Best Articles and Reports? You Can Find Them Here.

In News by Staff / Jun. 25, 2025
Housing Is A Human Right has published numerous special reports and articles over the years, including our investigation that won the “Best Activism Journalism” award from the Los Angeles Press Club (see below). They provide

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The Real Dirt: Corporate Landlords Target Black Tenants, Big Real Estate Delays Pro-Tenant Bill, the Shame of YIMBY

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / May. 28, 2025
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. UCLA delivered a

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Predatory Corporate Landlords Target Black Tenants for Eviction, Says New UCLA Study

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / May. 27, 2025
A new study has found that predatory corporate landlords are targeting Black tenants for eviction in the Los Angeles area. The eye-popping report, carried out by a UCLA researcher, also found that Equity Residential, Essex

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The Real Dirt: The RealPage Scandal, Big Real Estate Hires Fake Activists, Reining In the Oligarchs

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Apr. 29, 2025
The Real Dirt is a regular 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. Big news came

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‘Stop the Red Tape’ Protest: Housing Is A Human Right to Wrap LA City Hall in Red Tape Ribbon

In News by Staff / Apr. 17, 2025
For the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments in the Grants Pass case, which allowed for the criminalization of the unhoused community, Housing Is A Human Right and the Los Angeles office of

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As Nation’s Largest Corporate Landlords Keep Growing, Rent Control is Needed More Than Ever

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Apr. 09, 2025
The National Multifamily Housing Council, the powerful landlord lobbying group based in Washington D.C., has released a new ranking of the nation’s largest corporate landlords. What becomes clear is that as Big Real Estate continues

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The Real Dirt: The Greed of California Apartment Association, Invitation Homes, and Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 27, 2025
The Real Dirt is a regular 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. The California Apartment