It 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 …
AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s Years-Long Battle Against Corporate Landlord Greed
Since 2018, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the parent organization of Housing Is A Human Right, has battled the largest corporate landlords in the United States, and it has no intention of stopping – Big Real Estate’s …
Equity Residential, AvalonBay Communities, and Essex Property Trust are Top Contributors to Stop Rent Control Expansion in California
Equity Residential, AvalonBay Communities, and Essex Property Trust are the top contributors of Big Real Estate’s multi-million-dollar blitz to stop the expansion of rent control in California. The three companies, who are among the largest …
Corporate Landlords Contribute $20.9 Million to Kill Rent Control Expansion in California
A powerful, deep-pocketed group of 11 corporate landlords has contributed a total of $20.9 million to the California Apartment Association Issues Committee to kill the expansion of rent control in California. Big Real Estate’s millions …
We Have the Power To Rein In Greedy Corporate Landlords
Week after week, there’s a new study about the life-altering consequences of sky-high rents or a new investigation about the destructive greed of corporate landlords. It may seem like a hopeless situation, but it’s not, …
Unaffordable Rents Linked to More Deaths, Says Eviction Lab
Over the years, Housing Is A Human Right has routinely said that the housing affordability crisis is a public health issue. Now Eviction Lab, the highly regarded research institute at Princeton University, has found that …
Who’s Funding Big Real Estate’s Sneaky Anti-Rent Control Effort in California? Here Are Their Names
Housing Is A Human Right recently revealed that the California Apartment Association and corporate landlords are playing a sneaky shell game to fund their anti-rent control effort in California, trying to avoid scrutiny from the …
Corporate Landlords Are Secretly Funneling Millions to Anti-Rent Control Campaigns in California
Real estate companies have never been wild about transparency, routinely hiding behind LPs and LLCs so the public doesn’t know who owns a property. Corporate landlords are now taking that shadiness to another level, secretly …
Federal Judge Says Tenants Can Move Forward With Lawsuit Against RealPage and Corporate Landlords
December 28 wasn’t a good day for RealPage and corporate landlords Essex Property Trust, Equity Residential, and Camden Property Trust. That was when Chief U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw ruled that tenants in multiple states, …
Rent Control is Only Way to Rein In Corporate Landlords
Time and again, Californians have seen that rent control is the only way to rein in the predatory business practices of corporate landlords. From the ongoing RealPage Scandal to the “Dirty Deeds” section of The …