If there’s any doubt that middle- and working-class residents all over California need stronger renter protections, one should visit Fresno, and look up Grecia Elenes, the earnest, yet amiable senior policy advocate at the Leadership …
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 …
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Signals Urgent Response to Housing Crisis
California’s housing affordability and homelessness crises need a muscular response from local and state legislators. With today’s release of Governor Gavin Newsom’s state budget, Housing Is A Human Right is encouraged that the governor is …
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 …
The Battle for Fair, Affordable Housing Has Only Just Begun, Says AHF
As Proposition 10 supporters gathered in Hollywood to watch returns on the statewide ballot initiative that would have ended restrictions on rent control in California, Michael Weinstein, one of the citizen proponents of Prop 10 …