This past weekend, inside the Morningside High School gymnasium in Inglewood, hundreds of housing activists and renters, of all ages and colors, sat together in the bleachers and talked solutions. In front of them, Lupe


Housing Is A Human Right Applauds L.A. City Council’s Action on Eviction Crisis
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Oct. 15, 2019Housing Is A Human Right applauds the Los Angeles City Council for starting the process to urgently address a citywide eviction crisis that’s unfolding due to unscrupulous actions by landlords and notorious eviction attorney Dennis

Housing Is A Human Right Criticizes Insufficient AB 1482 Rent-Gouging Bill
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Oct. 08, 2019Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom is celebrating his signing of Assembly Bill 1482, which frames itself as providing the nation’s strongest statewide renter protections. Unfortunately, AB 1482 is insufficient in providing relief to California’s 17 million

Rental Affordability Act Hits Another Major Milestone with 500,000 Signatures
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Sep. 25, 2019In less than three months, California rent control advocates have gathered more than 500,000 voter signatures for the Rental Affordability Act, the statewide ballot measure that allows local communities to expand rent control. Voters are

‘GNTRIFIED’ Billboards Hit Inaction on Housing Affordability Crisis
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Sep. 06, 2019Housing justice advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched this week “GNTRIFIED,” the latest Los Angeles-area billboard campaign to spotlight inaction on the housing affordability crisis and the role gentrification plays in the spiraling homeless epidemic in

2020 California Rent Control Measure Clears 50 Percent Signature Threshold
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Aug. 29, 2019In just two short months, rent control advocates in California have collected more than 325,000 signatures for the Rental Affordability Act, a statewide ballot measure that will allow local communities to expand rent control in California.

Housing Is A Human Right Opposes LA City Council Power Grab of Community Redevelopment Agency
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Aug. 28, 2019The Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved a little-known resolution and ordinance on Tuesday that questionably transfers the land use planning authority from the Community Redevelopment Agency to the city’s

Rental Affordability Act Surpasses Key Threshold For Statewide Ballot
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Aug. 09, 2019Rent control advocates have collected 195,309 signatures for the Rental Affordability Act, the statewide ballot measure that will allow local communities to expand rent control in California. The total collected so far by the organizations leading

Californians Overwhelmingly Support Rental Affordability Act
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Jul. 10, 2019California voters overwhelmingly support the expansion of rent control policies and a proposed ballot initiative, the Rental Affordability Act (RAA), according to a new poll commissioned by AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The poll was conducted at

California’s Housing Affordability Crisis Demands the Rental Affordability Act
In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Jul. 05, 2019Californians are getting slammed by a devastating, ongoing housing affordability crisis. They need help now. Top experts at prestigious colleges such as USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Columbia University agree that rent control is a