Across the country, tenants are hitting back after a ProPublica investigation found that RealPage, a Big Tech firm based in Texas, helps a cartel of corporate landlords to wildly inflate rents. So far, RealPage and …
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 …
California Apartment Association and Big Real Estate Influence Political Races Throughout California
With election season upon us, journalists and voters should take another look at our special report about how the California Apartment Association and Big Real Estate deliver campaign contributions to politicians in every level of …
Top 5 Worst Corporate Landlords (Corporate YIMBYs Win Honorable Mention)
As corporate landlords keep setting sky-high prices in the rental housing market, tenants are getting slammed by unfair rents, more evictions, and more homelessness. Known for their predatory business practices, corporate landlords also shell out …
Corporate Landlords’ Excessive Rents Fuel Homelessness. Rent Control Will Save Lives.
A recent study shows that in cities where people spend more than 32 percent of their take-home pay on rent, a spike in homelessness will follow. With corporate landlords setting excessive prices in rental housing …
Special Investigation: California Apartment Association’s Deep-Pocketed Campaign To Kill Tenant Protections
Housing Is A Human Right routinely publishes special reports about the real estate industry and the politicians and YIMBYs who carry out Big Real Estate’s agenda. One of our reports — “The Garcetti-fication of Los …
UPDATE: Big Real Estate’s Top 10 Campaign Contributors That Oppose Proposition 21
Since last month, Big Real Estate has nearly doubled its millions in campaign contributions to stop Proposition 21. Leading the charge, Essex Property Trust, helmed by CEO Mike Schall (pictured above), is the top contributor …
EXCLUSIVE: The Big Real Estate Executives Who Are Calling the Shots to Stop Prop 21
On Thursday, July 16, a little before noon, Essex Property Trust executive John Eudy sent an email to his deep-pocketed colleagues in the real estate industry, asking for campaign contributions — $100 per apartment — …
UPDATE: Top 10 Contributors Opposing Rent Control in California
Big Real Estate keeps pumping millions into campaigns that oppose Proposition 21, the November ballot measure that expands rent control in California. And in June, a new No on 21 committee was established, adding up …
Californians Stand Up to Big Real Estate and Back Rent Control
California’s grassroots movement that aims to expand rent control through a statewide ballot measure has reached a major milestone: the initiative, known as the Rental Affordability Act (RAA), has received more than 1,200 individual campaign …
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