Corporate landlords and their high-powered lobbying group, the California Apartment Association, are working to stop pro-rent control campaigns in three cities in California, and they’ve already dropped $20,000 to kill a pro-rent control measure in …
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YIMBYism seriously popped up in California in 2017 when Big Tech executives founded California YIMBY, a statewide lobbying group largely funded by tech industry hotshots. Since then, California YIMBY has pushed housing policies that impact …
Will the Mega-Merger of Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Hurt Tenants?
Corporate landlords Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities have officially merged to form the largest apartment real estate investment trust in the United States. This is no small thing: Equity and AvalonBay own thousands of apartments …
San Pablo Tenants and Activists Will Run Underdog Campaign to Rein In Unfair Rents
In San Pablo, California, tenants and activists have placed a rent stabilization measure on the local ballot, aiming to rein in predatory landlords. Located in Northern California, San Pablo joins Salinas and Redwood City that …
Redwood City Activists and Tenants Move Closer to Much-Needed Rent Control Victory
On July 7, in California, the Redwood City Council gave the green light to place a rent stabilization initiative on the local November ballot. Tenants and activists, led by Faith in Action Bay Area, gathered …
Politicians Must Use Multi-Pronged Strategy for Housing Affordability Crisis
As sky-high rents and homelessness continue to persist in California and across the United States, politicians must adopt a more dynamic, multi-pronged strategy to help poor and middle- and working-class tenants – the “trickle-down” housing …
Georgia Activists Form Coalition To Take On Corporate Landlords
A coalition of tenants, housing groups, and civic leaders from across Georgia have started a new advocacy campaign called “End the Corporate Takeover.” It’s another effort by advocates and renters in the United States to …
The Serious Need for a Unified Rent Control Movement in the US
Last week, Housing Is A Human Right and other housing and homeless organizations from across the United States met in New York City for the National Conference on Rent Control and Tenant Rights. Over the …
Are Big Real Estate and YIMBYs Totally Wrong About How to Solve the Housing Affordability Crisis?
Are Big Real Estate and YIMBYs totally wrong about their never-ending push to solve the housing affordability crisis through a trickle-down agenda? Housing Is A Human Right and many housing justice groups believe so, and …
Zillow’s Chief Economist is Still Right About the Dire Need for More Affordable Housing
Nearly 10 years ago, on July 28, 2016, Zillow Chief Economist Dr. Svenja Gudell released a “Zillow analysis” about the kinds of apartments built in America – luxury units compared to affordable. It was a …