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With FEMA Picking Up the Tab, Will California Lawmakers House the Homeless?

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 19, 2021
A little more than a week ago, the Biden administration made a major announcement: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will provide 100 percent reimbursement to counties for shelter-in-place hotel costs for the unhoused. California

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Housing Is A Human Right and AHF Say ‘No’ to Hollywood Community Plan

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Feb. 17, 2021
This week, Los Angeles City Hall is considering an update of the Hollywood Community Plan. L.A. officials must come up with policies that address gentrification and the housing affordability and homelessness crises — not fuel

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U.S. Renters Paid a Staggering $4.5 Trillion to Landlords, According to Zillow

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 12, 2021
A little more than a year ago, Zillow, the real estate site, came out with an eye-popping statistic: between 2010 and 2019, renters in the United States paid landlords a staggering $4.5 trillion. That’s not

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Housing Is A Human Right Creates Website to ‘Drive the Rent Down’

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Feb. 11, 2021
Housing Is A Human Right has created a special website for current tenants and new renters to lower the rent or win other money-saving concessions. At drivetherentdown.com, people can easily inform themselves and learn key

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Are You a Renter in California? Here are New Trends You’ll Want to Know

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 05, 2021
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rental housing market in California has most definitely changed. More landlords are offering specials, and rents have lowered — although those decreases started at very high price levels and

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Never Forget the Corporate Landlords Who Want All Your Money

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 27, 2021
As we head deeper into 2021, renters in California and across the nation should never forget the small but powerful group of corporate landlords who shelled out a staggering $66.5 million to kill the expansion

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COVID-19 Exposed Longtime Housing and Homelessness Problems. Will Politicians Do More than Short-Term Solutions?

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 26, 2021
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, one thing has become alarmingly clear: middle- and working-class Americans need long-term solutions for major problems that have impacted them for years. That especially applies to the housing

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Rolls Out Comprehensive Housing Platform

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Jan. 20, 2021
In 1987, AIDS Healthcare Foundation was founded in Los Angeles as a housing and medical-care provider for terminally-ill AIDS patients. Decades later, in California and throughout the country, AHF’s patients have been negatively impacted by

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President Joe Biden Says Housing Is a Right. It’s a Game Changer.

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 19, 2021
With the recent unveiling of the COVID-19 relief package, the Biden Administration made a simple, yet extraordinary statement: housing is a right. That powerful concept can dramatically impact housing and homelessness policies for the better.

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Will Lawmakers Fully Embrace AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Model To Quickly Produce More Housing?

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 14, 2021
Years before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, AIDS Healthcare Foundation created a housing model to urgently address Los Angeles’ worsening homelessness crisis. State and local officials in California are now following AHF’s lead, but they must