Since 2017, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the parent organization of Housing Is A Human Right, has bought more than a dozen old hotels and motels in the Los Angeles area, renovated them, and quickly produced more …
Housing Is A Human Right’s Top 5 Most-Read Stories of 2022
As part of our cutting-edge advocacy, Housing Is A Human Right publishes award-winning advocacy journalism in the News section of our website. We write with a grassroots perspective that mainstream reporters don’t often provide; we …
Housing Is A Human Right and Healthy Housing Foundation Reach New Milestone, Urgently Serving Tenants and the Unhoused for Five Years
In 2022, Housing Is A Human Right and its sister organization, Healthy Housing Foundation, reached a new milestone: five years of serving tenants and the unhoused by urgently addressing the housing affordability and homelessness crises. …
Big Real Estate Wanted to Keep Charging Excessive Rents. So It Spent $175 Million to Kill Rent Control in California.
In 2018 and 2020, Big Real Estate spent a total of $175.4 million to kill rent control ballot measures in California, aggressively protecting its ability to charge higher and higher rents. Two years later, several …
RealPage Shelled Out $500,000 to Stop Rent Control in California
Housing Is A Human Right has found that RealPage, a controversial Big Tech company based in Texas, shelled out an eye-popping $500,000 to kill the expansion of rent control in California. RealPage has come under …
Housing Is A Human Right Investigation Uncovers Shocking Facts About LA’s Vacant SROs
As part of its “Save Our SROs” advocacy campaign, Housing Is A Human Right has found more than 4,600 housing units in the Downtown Los Angeles area that are sitting vacant or are waiting to …
Housing Is A Human Right Unveils Adaptive Reuse Exhibit in Downtown LA
On Friday, August 5, Housing Is A Human Right and its parent organization, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, unveiled an adaptive reuse exhibit in Downtown Los Angeles at the Barclay Hotel. It explains how the adaptive reuse …
Housing Is A Human Right to LA City Hall: ‘Save Our SROs!’
Housing Is A Human Right has unveiled a new campaign to address the homelessness crisis: “Save Our SROs” or “S.O.S.” Single-room occupancy hotels provide essential affordable housing for low-income residents. Yet L.A. elected officials have …
State Leaders Must Pass SB 1456 to Address the Homelessness Crisis. It’s a No-Brainer.
California’s SB 1456 is a no-brainer. The bill, authored by State Sen. Henry Stern, creates a much-needed property tax exemption on 100 percent affordable-housing projects – and establishes a sustainable, barrier-free model that will greatly …
Student Filmmakers Take Aim at the Worsening Gentrification Crisis in Dallas
Over the years, I’ve traveled to numerous cities to talk with activists and residents who battle the devastating impacts of gentrification. After a few of those trips, I noticed that no matter where people lived …