It’s only September, and corporate landlords have already shelled out tens of millions to kill Proposition 33 and silence AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) through Proposition 34. At this rate, Big Real Estate will likely shell …
Is LA Times Reporter Liam Dillon a Shill for Big Real Estate?
A weeks-long Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that Los Angeles Times housing reporter Liam Dillon (in gray suit above) participated in at least 20 real estate industry events since 2016, committing numerous …
California Apartment Association Seeks To Silence AHF, Stoops to New Low
The California Apartment Association is up to its dirty tricks again — and has stooped to a new low. Known for shelling out mounds of campaign cash to influence politicians and using bully tactics against …
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 …
California’s Housing Affordability Crisis Demands the Rental Affordability Act
Californians are getting slammed by a devastating, ongoing housing affordability crisis. They need help now. Top experts at prestigious colleges such as USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Columbia University agree that rent control is a …
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 …
Californians Want Rent Control
In his recent column for CALmatters, Dan Walters argues that two state bills that would reform the problematic Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and institute anti-rent gouging would defy the “will of the voters” after the …
Big Real Estate Contributes Heavily to Scott Wiener’s 2020 Re-Election Campaign
A Housing Is A Human Right investigation has found that the real estate industry, including the California Apartment Association and notorious landlord Russell Flynn, have shelled out $153,816 to California State Senator Scott Wiener’s 2020 …
In California, Big Real Estate Spent $77.3 Million To Stop Rent Control
A Housing Is A Human Right investigation found that powerful, real estate players shelled out a whopping $77.3 million to stop Proposition 10 in California. They spent heavily to halt the grassroots effort to urgently …