In 2025, corporate landlords, many of whom are among the largest in the United States, delivered major cash to the California Apartment Association Independent Expenditure. That little-known political committee is used by Big Real Estate …
Exposing California Apartment Association’s Multi-Million-Dollar Campaign to Stop Rent Control
Earlier this year, Patrick Range McDonald, the award-winning advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, published an eye-opening exposé on his Medium page about the California Apartment Association’s deep-pocketed campaign to stop Proposition 33, …
California Apartment Association Uses Deep-Pocketed Influence to Delay Crucial Pro-Tenant Bill
Once again, the California Apartment Association has shown that it only cares about guarding Big Real Estate’s outsized profits by delaying a crucial state bill that would have helped millions of tenants struggling through the …
Nation’s Largest Corporate Landlords Use California Apartment Association to Make Outsized Profits
The California Apartment Association often frames itself as a defender of mom-and-pop landlords, but that’s anything but the truth. Research shows time and again that many of the nation’s largest corporate landlords use the CAA …
California Apartment Association Investigated for Shady Contributions to Kill Prop 33 and Pass Prop 34
The California Fair Political Practices Commission is now investigating the California Apartment Association and a corporate landlord for shady campaign contributions used to kill Prop 33 and pass Prop 34. AIDS Healthcare Foundation and its housing advocacy …