At 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 Real Estate work hand in hand to kill tenant protections, such as rent control, and to buy political influence from elected officials throughout California. All of which is done to protect and grow corporate landlords’ outsized profits.
The information hub is the “Stop CAA” page at the HHR website, where valuable news and information about the California Apartment Association are collected in one place. It’s a tool, which features a search engine, that reporters, activists, and residents can use to easily access top-notch articles and special reports by Housing Is A Human Right.
For years, Housing Is A Human Right has been a leading organization in exposing the shady practices of the California Apartment Association, which is funded by the country’s largest corporate landlords – and many of the top executives in the real estate industry sit on the CAA’s board of directors. The CAA has such a bad reputation among activists that it’s known as the “California Anti-Tenant Association.”
In 2021, for example, Housing Is A Human Right’s award-winning advocacy journalist, Patrick Range McDonald, wrote an exclusive special report that revealed corporate landlords were sending millions in cash to the CAA’s political action committees, which then delivered campaign contributions to elected officials in 51 out of California’s 58 counties to buy political influence.
In addition, between 2018 and 2024, the California Apartment Association and corporate landlords have spent more than $250 million to kill three ballot measures that sought to repeal or reform statewide rent control restrictions, allowing Big Real Estate to continue to charge unfair, excessive rents and generate massive revenues off the backs of hard-working tenants.
Housing Is A Human Right’s Stop CAA page fills a huge void. For years, mainstream media outlets have not regularly reported, in depth, about the hard-ball tactics that the California Apartment Association carries out on the behalf of corporate landlords to kill tenant protections and to protect Big Real Estate’s profits. Housing Is A Human Right will correct that by routinely publishing breaking news stories as well as new investigative reports at the Stop CAA page.
It’s an exciting, much-needed project that features the work of Patrick Range McDonald, a longtime, award-winning investigative journalist who joined Housing Is A Human Right in 2017. In 2020, McDonald won the “Best Activism Journalism” award from the Los Angeles Press Club for his investigation into Los Angeles’s gentrification crisis. As a staff writer at L.A. Weekly, he won the “Journalist of the Year” award from the L.A. Press Club and the national “Public Service” award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.
After investigating and writing about the California Apartment Association for more than seven years, McDonald knows where the CAA’s skeletons are buried and will share with readers a unique knowledge about the organization’s statewide, multi-million-dollar operations.
Housing Is A Human Right urges activists and residents to share the Stop CAA page with their associates, family, and friends so people are better informed about the California Apartment Association’s unscrupulous methods and dark history as the powerful lobbying group for corporate landlords.
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