For years, Invitation Homes, led by CEO Dallas Tanner, has been slammed for its shocking treatment of tenants and fueling the country’s housing affordability crisis. The corporate landlord was even criticized by the United Nations …
Modern-Day Robber Baron: The Sins of Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman
Housing Is A Human Right presents another special report about the power players responsible for the housing affordability crisis. For this investigation, we examine Blackstone Group CEO and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, one of the largest …
Big Real Estate Gears Up to Stop Rental Affordability Act
A year away from Election Day, the real estate industry is already gearing up for a pitched battle against the housing justice movement in California. Heavyweights Essex Property Trust, the California Apartment Association, and Equity …
Housing Is A Human Right Exposes Billionaire Landlord Stephen Schwarzman
With the unveiling of a new website, Housing Is A Human Right turns the spotlight on the real estate industry’s predatory, greed-driven agenda that’s fueling the housing affordability crisis in California and across the nation. …
‘3 Ps’ Is Best Solution For Housing Affordability And Homelessness Crises
To maximize profits, the real estate industry has long pushed a trickle-down, luxury-housing agenda, fueling gentrification and the housing affordability and homelessness crises. It’s time for a shift — to more humane, logical housing policies …
Rent Control Advocates File for New California Statewide Ballot Measure for 2020
To address California’s housing affordability crisis, rent control advocates and Housing Is A Human Right have launched a statewide ballot measure called the Rental Affordability Act. Advocates intend to qualify the measure for the November …
Columbia University Professor Debunks Anti-Rent Control Arguments
In recent months, a growing list of top experts, including academics from USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley, have been debunking anti-rent control arguments. Now Columbia University Business School Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh joins the ranks. …
California’s SB 50, A Luxury-Housing Bill, Is Fundamentally Flawed
Housing Is A Human Right (HHR), the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, releases the following statement on California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s bill SB 50. HHR Director René Christian Moya is available for …
Frontline Activist Sees the Real-Life Damage of Housing Affordability Crisis
Georgina Serrano, an enthusiastic, big-hearted woman, is a community organizer in Los Angeles for Inquilinos Unidos, a housing justice nonprofit. She works, each day, on the frontlines of California’s housing affordability crisis. She’s never seen …
Runaway Corporate Landlord Greed Threatens A Family’s Way of Life
Derek Steele is an activist — but first and foremost a father and husband. When he and his wife were hit with two major rent increases in the past two years, with nothing to protect …