Once again trying to kill any kind of tenant protection in California, the California Apartment Association is about to weaken a rent stabilization ordinance in the city of Concord in Northern California. As a result,


Nation’s Largest Corporate Landlords Use California Apartment Association to Make Outsized Profits
In Stop CAA by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 19, 2025The 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
In Stop CAA by Staff / Feb. 06, 2025The 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

Housing Is A Human Right Implores California Apartment Association to Call For Rent Freezes
In Stop CAA by Staff / Jan. 22, 2025On the heels of widespread reports of rent gouging in Southern California following its recent apocalyptic wildfires, Housing Is A Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, implores the California Apartment Association,

Housing Is A Human Right Offers Vital Information Hub About California Apartment Association
In Stop CAA by Staff / Jan. 07, 2025At its website, Housing Is A Human Right now offers a vital information hub about the California Apartment Association, the powerful front group for the nation’s largest corporate landlords. The California Apartment Association and Big

California Apartment Association Carries Out Dirty Work for Corporate Landlords
In Stop CAA by Patrick Range McDonald / Dec. 14, 2024In 2022, corporate landlords Essex Property Trust, Equity Residential, and AvalonBay Communities, three of the largest apartment owners in the United States, quietly carried out a shell game with the California Apartment Association to kill

California Apartment Association Carries Out Statewide Attack on Tenant Protections
In Stop CAA by Patrick Range McDonald / Dec. 14, 2024For years, the California Apartment Association, the front group for corporate landlords, has carried out a statewide attack on tenant protections — no matter who gets hurt. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization even fought temporary safeguards

Corporate Landlords and California Apartment Association Are Public Menaces
In Stop CAA by Patrick Range McDonald / Dec. 13, 2024When it comes to devastating the lives of Californians, corporate landlords and the California Apartment Association are the worst kind of public menaces. That’s not a stretch. No other industry has done as much destruction

California Apartment Association and Corporate Landlords Spend Millions to Influence Politicians
In Stop CAA by Patrick Range McDonald / Dec. 13, 2024As we head into 2025, Californians and reporters should take a hard look at Housing Is A Human Right’s 2021 special report about how the California Apartment Association and corporate landlords deliver millions in campaign contributions to

Exclusive: Top Ten Contributors to No on Prop 33 and Yes on Prop 34 in California
In Stop CAA by Patrick Range McDonald / Oct. 22, 2024It gets little, if any, media coverage, but a small group of corporate landlords are overwhelmingly funding the No on Prop 33 and Yes on Prop 34 campaigns in California. Additionally, several of those companies