Housing Is A Human Right strongly opposes California State Senate bills 9 (SB 9) and 10 (SB 10). These wrong-headed policies will be a boon for developers, but ignore the long-term, negative impacts on working-class …
Scott Wiener’s SB 50 Faces Mounting Opposition From Dozens of Cities
California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s real estate deregulation bill, SB 50, is facing mounting opposition from elected officials in nearly three dozen cities. On May 7, the Long Beach City Council voted unanimously to oppose …
New SB 50 Mailer Exposes State Sen. Scott Wiener as ‘The Man from Real Estate’
As California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s real estate deregulation bill SB 50 wends its way through legislative committees in Sacramento, housing justice and rent control advocates affiliated with Housing Is A Human Right (HHR) today …
Scott Wiener Tries to Divert Attention Away From SB 50’s Negative Impacts
Last week, California State Sen. Scott Wiener took umbrage to a mailer sent out by AIDS Healthcare Foundation that featured a quote by renowned writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin. The mailer and a …
Scott Wiener’s Appalling Legacy as San Francisco Supervisor
Before Scott Wiener became a state senator in 2016, he served as a San Francisco supervisor for six years. Known as a “corporate Democrat,” he aggressively pushed policies that benefited his campaigns contributors in the …
Scott Wiener’s SB 50 Must Build More Affordable Housing to Address Crisis
Last week, California State Sen. Scott Wiener said he would refine his controversial, trickle-down housing bill, SB 50. Housing Is A Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, demands that any changes …
Housing Is A Human Right Continues to Oppose Trickle-Down Housing Bill SB 50
Today, the California State Senate Housing Committee approved State Sen. Scott Wiener’s fundamentally flawed, trickle-down housing bill, SB 50. We’re disappointed, but not surprised. Housing Is A Human Right will continue to fight on the …
Selling Out California: Scott Wiener’s Money Ties to Big Real Estate
Housing Is A Human Right has released today a special report about California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s troubling financial connections to the real estate industry. It reveals that Wiener — who aggressively pushes a controversial …
Will Federal ‘Opportunity Zones’ Hyper-Gentrify America?
Wall Street is euphoric over federal “opportunity zones.” Many local politicians are wild with excitement. Accelerator for America, a kind of think-tank founded by U.S. mayors, will soon hold a summit at Stanford University to …
The Garcetti-fication of Los Angeles: A Gentrification Cautionary Tale
Housing Is A Human Right has released today a special report about government-sanctioned gentrification in Los Angeles. Mayor Eric Garcetti stands at the center of this important exposé. The largely untold story is a must-read …
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