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Housing Is A Human Right Applauds Gov. Gavin Newsom For Addressing Soaring Rents

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Feb. 12, 2019
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and its housing advocacy division, Housing Is A Human Right (HHR), applaud California Gov. Gavin Newsom for providing leadership in addressing the state’s devastating housing affordability and homeless crises. Unfair, excessive

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L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti Should Stay Home and Focus On Homeless Crisis

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Jan. 29, 2019
With Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announcing today that he won’t run for president in 2020, Housing Is A Human Right strongly urges him to double his efforts in addressing Los Angeles’ homeless and housing

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Big Real Estate Contributes Heavily to Scott Wiener’s 2020 Re-Election Campaign

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 21, 2019
A Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that the real estate industry, including the California Apartment Association and notorious landlord Russell Flynn, have shelled out $153,816 to California State Senator Scott Wiener’s 2020

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Signals Urgent Response to Housing Crisis

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Jan. 10, 2019
California’s housing affordability and homelessness crises need a muscular response from local and state legislators. With today’s release of Governor Gavin Newsom’s state budget, Housing Is A Human Right is encouraged that the governor is

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Frontline Activist Sees the Real-Life Damage of Housing Affordability Crisis

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 06, 2019
Georgina Serrano, an enthusiastic, big-hearted woman, is a community organizer in Los Angeles for Inquilinos Unidos, a housing justice nonprofit. She works, each day, on the frontlines of California’s housing affordability crisis. She’s never seen

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Runaway Corporate Landlord Greed Threatens A Family’s Way of Life

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Jan. 05, 2019
Derek Steele is an activist — but first and foremost a father and husband. When he and his wife were hit with two major rent increases in the past two years, with nothing to protect

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Unfair Rents in California Impact A New Father and His Community

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Dec. 07, 2018
Mike Van Gorder and his wife live in a modest apartment on a quiet, tree-lined street in Glendale, a small city 10 miles north of Downtown Los Angeles. They have been married for five years,

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In California, Big Real Estate Spent $77.3 Million To Stop Rent Control

In News by Patrick Range McDonald / Dec. 04, 2018
A Housing Is A Human Right investigation found that powerful, real estate players shelled out a whopping $77.3 million to stop Proposition 10 in California.  They spent heavily to halt the grassroots effort to urgently

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Proposition 10 Election Results Show Key Victories for Broad Housing Coalition

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Dec. 03, 2018
Proposition 10 forced a robust public debate about access to affordable housing throughout California, galvanizing policymakers and advocates who are profoundly frustrated at the insidious acceleration of homelessness caused by persistent, excessive increases in rental

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AHF Addresses Housing Solutions at Sanders Institute’s The Gathering

In News by Housing Is A Human Right / Nov. 29, 2018
AIDS Healthcare Foundation will address housing justice issues at the Sanders Institute’s The Gathering this week. The progressive think-tank was co-founded by Jane Sanders, the wife of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. Healthy Housing Foundation, AHF’s