Maybe you’ve read an article about YIMBYs or heard a friend mention the term. Or maybe you saw something on Twitter, but still don’t understand what YIMBYs are. No problem. Here’s the lowdown. To start …
Petition Shows Strong Support for Fixing Flawed Update of Hollywood Community Plan
A petition created by Housing Is A Human Right shows strong support for fixing the flawed update of the Hollywood Community Plan. More than 1,660 people have signed the petition, demanding that Mayor Eric Garcetti …
Trickle-Down Housing is a Failure. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Trickle-down housing policy, pushed by the real estate industry and politicians, has been a colossal failure. It hasn’t built the affordable housing that’s needed for California’s housing affordability crisis, and it fuels gentrification in working-class …
Housing Is A Human Right Opposes California’s SB 9 and SB 10
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 …
Homeownership Is a Crucial Tool for Communities of Color to Build Wealth. Politicians Should Never Take It Away.
In California and throughout the United States, politicians, the real estate industry, and YIMBY groups are attacking single-family home zoning. Yet these groups rarely, if ever, mention a key fact: homeownership is a crucial tool …
Housing Is A Human Right and AHF Say ‘No’ to Hollywood Community Plan
This week, Los Angeles City Hall is considering an update of the Hollywood Community Plan. L.A. officials must come up with policies that address gentrification and the housing affordability and homelessness crises — not fuel …
U.S. Renters Paid a Staggering $4.5 Trillion to Landlords, According to Zillow
A little more than a year ago, Zillow, the real estate site, came out with an eye-popping statistic: between 2010 and 2019, renters in the United States paid landlords a staggering $4.5 trillion. That’s not …
Housing Is A Human Right’s Advocacy Highlights of 2020
In 2020, Housing Is A Human Right fought tenaciously on the behalf of Californians, carrying out our mission of the “3 Ps”: protect tenants, preserve communities, and produce housing. In 2021, we’ll continue to fight …
Housing Is A Human Right Wins ‘Best Activism Journalism’ Award
Housing Is A Human Right and Patrick Range McDonald, the organization’s advocacy journalist, recently won the “Best Activism Journalism” award from the Los Angeles Press Club. HHR and McDonald earned the honor for the 2019 …
Modern-Day Robber Baron: The Sins of Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman
Housing Is A Human Right presents another special report about the power players responsible for the housing affordability crisis. For this investigation, we examine Blackstone Group CEO and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, one of the largest …