Housing justice advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation launched this week “GNTRIFIED,” the latest Los Angeles-area billboard campaign to spotlight inaction on the housing affordability crisis and the role gentrification plays in the spiraling homeless epidemic in …
2020 California Rent Control Measure Clears 50 Percent Signature Threshold
In just two short months, rent control advocates in California have collected more than 325,000 signatures for the Rental Affordability Act, a statewide ballot measure that will allow local communities to expand rent control in California. …
Housing Is A Human Right Opposes LA City Council Power Grab of Community Redevelopment Agency
The Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management Committee approved a little-known resolution and ordinance on Tuesday that questionably transfers the land use planning authority from the Community Redevelopment Agency to the city’s …
Rental Affordability Act Surpasses Key Threshold For Statewide Ballot
Rent control advocates have collected 195,309 signatures for the Rental Affordability Act, the statewide ballot measure that will allow local communities to expand rent control in California. The total collected so far by the organizations leading …
Californians Overwhelmingly Support Rental Affordability Act
California voters overwhelmingly support the expansion of rent control policies and a proposed ballot initiative, the Rental Affordability Act (RAA), according to a new poll commissioned by AIDS Healthcare Foundation. The poll was conducted at …
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 …
Housing Is A Human Right Exposes Billionaire Landlord Stephen Schwarzman
With the unveiling of a new website, Housing Is A Human Right turns the spotlight on the real estate industry’s predatory, greed-driven agenda that’s fueling the housing affordability crisis in California and across the nation. …
‘3 Ps’ Is Best Solution For Housing Affordability And Homelessness Crises
To maximize profits, the real estate industry has long pushed a trickle-down, luxury-housing agenda, fueling gentrification and the housing affordability and homelessness crises. It’s time for a shift — to more humane, logical housing policies …
The Housing Affordability Crisis Fuels L.A.’s Homeless Emergency
The 16 percent and 12 percent jumps in homelessness in Los Angeles city and county, respectively, sadly underline that we are facing a devastating humanitarian crisis. In total, there are 58,936 homeless people in L.A. …
Unfair Rents and Gentrification Spark People Power in Sacramento
Across the street from the California State Capitol, during her lunch break, Erica Jaramillo, a government worker and Sacramento Tenants Union member, contemplates the frontline battles of the housing affordability crisis. The sudden evictions, the …