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 …
AIDS Healthcare Foundation Boldly Tackles Housing Affordability Crisis
For 32 years, AIDS Healthcare Foundation has boldly tackled public health crises — from the AIDS epidemic to sexually transmitted disease outbreaks to the deadly Ebola crisis in Africa. That’s especially true when governments and …
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 …
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 …
LA City Council Opposes Scott Wiener’s Trickle-Down Housing Bill SB 50
In the largest city in California, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously yesterday to oppose State Sen. Scott Wiener’s trickle-down housing bill, SB 50. The council members sent a strong message to state legislators …
California Needs Rent Control to Urgently Address Housing Affordability Crisis
California’s housing affordability crisis is devastating the middle- and working-class. It’s an emergency that’s impacting millions—and unfolding right now. We need urgent solutions. Housing Is A Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare …
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 …
Californians Want Rent Control
In his recent column for CALmatters, Dan Walters argues that two state bills that would reform the problematic Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and institute anti-rent gouging would defy the “will of the voters” after the …
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 …
Is California State Sen. Scott Wiener’s Trickle-Down Housing Bill a Scam?
On February 18, Housing Is A Human Right released an investigative report, “The Garcetti-fication of Los Angeles: A Gentrification Cautionary Tale.” We examined, among other things, L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti’s embrace of trickle-down housing. Housing activists …