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Sky-High Rents Fuel Homelessness

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Apr. 26, 2023
Two recent Zillow studies show that sky-high rents are fueling the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles and other major cities. Alarmingly, homeless deaths in 20 U.S. urban areas, including Los Angeles and San Diego, skyrocketed

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Rent Control Reins In Corporate Landlord Greed

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Apr. 14, 2023
Rent control is the only way to rein in corporate landlord greed. The California Apartment Association and other Big Real Estate groups try to confuse voters about that hard fact, but it’s clear why they

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Housing Is A Human Right Urges LA Politicians to Immediately Carry Out Measure ULA

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Apr. 12, 2023
Housing Is A Human Right has sent a letter to the Los Angeles City Council, urging them to immediately carry out Measure ULA — a recently passed ballot measure that created funding for affordable housing

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Is LA Times Reporter Liam Dillon’s Housing Coverage Biased?

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Apr. 05, 2023
Through a weeks-long investigation, Housing Is A Human Right has found disturbing patterns in the housing coverage of Los Angeles Times reporter Liam Dillon. Most troubling, we discovered that Dillon repeatedly dismissed the housing justice

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Is LA Times Reporter Liam Dillon a Shill for Big Real Estate?

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Mar. 09, 2023
A weeks-long Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that Los Angeles Times housing reporter Liam Dillon (in gray suit above) participated in at least 20 real estate industry events since 2016, committing numerous

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Will Progressives Ever Make Housing a Top Priority?

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 06, 2023
Housing justice activists have been increasingly pushing for the passage of rent control and the repeal of rent control bans in states and cities all over the country. Rents have skyrocketed the most out of

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Top Five Flaws of Stanford University Study on Rent Control

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 18, 2023
For more than five years, reporters and the real estate industry continue to cite a seriously flawed and misleading study on rent control by Stanford University researchers. At the same time, reporters almost never mention

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Tenants Hit Back. RealPage and Corporate Landlords Face More Than 20 Lawsuits.

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 17, 2023
Across the country, tenants are hitting back after a ProPublica investigation found that RealPage, a Big Tech firm based in Texas, helps a cartel of corporate landlords to wildly inflate rents. So far, RealPage and

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California Has Most Rent-Burdened Tenants in US. We Need Rent Control.

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 06, 2023
California has more rent-burdened tenants than anywhere in the United States, according to a new report by the O.C. Register. It’s more proof that California desperately needs to end statewide rent control restrictions – and

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‘3 Ps’ Must Be Top Priority for Housing Policymakers

In News by Staff / Jan. 04, 2023
As the housing affordability and homelessness crises continue to slam the poor and middle- and working-class residents, the “3 Ps” must be a top priority for housing policymakers. Trickle-down housing solutions don’t help those who