With this week’s re-introduction of California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s SB 50, Housing Is A Human Right continues to oppose the trickle-down housing bill that fuels gentrification. “SB 50 still doesn’t address our key concerns,”

Housing Is A Human Right applauds the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for voting today to oppose SB 50, the pro-gentrification bill proposed by California State Sen. Scott Wiener. The supervisors understand that SB 50

As Brown Berets, Jessica Aguallo-Hurtado and her husband, Jesse Hurtado, travel throughout California to help the underserved in the Latino community. They tackle, for example, police brutality, immigration reform, and education issues. Recently, they added

A few months ago, Karina Ioffee, a no-nonsense journalist-turned-activist, had the misfortune to run up against the California Apartment Association. The CAA, one of the most powerful landlord lobbying groups in the state, is known

In San Diego, activist Rafael Bautista is fighting a seemingly impossible fight. Landlords do whatever they want. Developers build whatever they want. And city politicians do next to nothing about the troubling practices of landlords

A year away from Election Day, the real estate industry is already gearing up for a pitched battle against the housing justice movement in California. Heavyweights Essex Property Trust, the California Apartment Association, and Equity

A few days ago, Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable, 89-year-old labor union and civil rights activist, wanted to share her wisdom. She stood inside a ballroom at Cal State L.A., on a platform, with a large

California State Sen. Scott Wiener continues to roll in campaign cash from Big Real Estate. Housing Is A Human Right examined Wiener’s 2020 re-election campaign contributions between February and June of 2019, finding that he

Eviction attorney Dennis Block boasts to have “evicted more tenants than any other human being on the planet Earth.” He describes rent control as a “cancer,” and cheers on rising rents on Twitter. He’s made

Housing Is a Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is excited to announce that it has amassed more than 625,000 signatures to qualify the Rental Affordability Act for California’s statewide ballot