At least four major lawsuits have been filed by California tenants against RealPage and its corporate clients for allegedly colluding to inflate rents. Last October, ProPublica published a devastating investigative report that found RealPage, through

The Wall Street Journal published a disturbing report this week, revealing that the “number of homeless people counted on streets and in shelters around the U.S. has broadly risen this year.” At the same time,

A new, wide-ranging study by the University of California San Francisco has found that Californians are homeless because sky-high rents are forcing people into the streets. Researchers surveyed nearly 3,200 people and learned that their

Housing Is A Human Right’s must-read book Selling Off California: The Untold Story has been chosen as a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club award. Selling Off California exposes the powerful alliances and devastating

Studies have long indicated that the LGBTQ+ community needs rent control. That’s because LGBTQ+ people are more likely to rent than own a home, which means they’re constantly dealing with the predatory tactics of the

On Thursday, May 25, Housing Is A Human Right and its parent organization, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, delivered more than 800,000 signatures to California officials to repeal statewide rent control restrictions through a 2024 ballot measure.

Housing Is A Human Right applauds President Joe Biden on his ALL INside initiative, a new homelessness plan, to provide the state of California, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Seattle, and the Phoenix metropolitan area with

For the seventh year in a row, homeless deaths have increased in the Los Angeles area, according to a new report by the L.A. County Department of Public Health. In total, 9,765 unhoused residents have

In the first quarter of 2023, Ellis Act filings dramatically rose in Los Angeles, according to the Coalition for Economic Survival and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. It’s a devastating trend that results in less rent-controlled

Seniors on fixed incomes are increasingly pushed into homelessness by excessive rents – a life-threatening situation that can be quickly addressed through rent control. There’s no time to wait: seniors make up the fastest-growing homeless