At its website, Housing Is A Human Right now offers a vital information hub about the California Apartment Association, the powerful front group for the nation’s largest corporate landlords. The California Apartment Association and Big …
Corporate Landlords Are Secretly Funneling Millions to Anti-Rent Control Campaigns in California
Real estate companies have never been wild about transparency, routinely hiding behind LPs and LLCs so the public doesn’t know who owns a property. Corporate landlords are now taking that shadiness to another level, secretly …
Corporate Landlords Use the California Apartment Association to Carry Out Greed-Driven Agenda
In 2022, controversial corporate landlords Essex Property Trust, Equity Residential, and AvalonBay Communities quietly contributed massive sums to a California Apartment Association political committee, which then delivered $125,000 to an anti-rent control campaign in Pasadena. …
Housing Is A Human Right Book Finalist for Los Angeles Press Club Award
Housing Is A Human Right’s must-read book Selling Off California: The Untold Story has been chosen as a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club award. Selling Off California exposes the powerful alliances and devastating …
Homeless Deaths Increase for Seventh Year in a Row in Los Angeles
For the seventh year in a row, homeless deaths have increased in the Los Angeles area, according to a new report by the L.A. County Department of Public Health. In total, 9,765 unhoused residents have …
Ellis Act Evictions Dramatically Rise in Los Angeles
In the first quarter of 2023, Ellis Act filings dramatically rose in Los Angeles, according to the Coalition for Economic Survival and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. It’s a devastating trend that results in less rent-controlled …
Sky-High Rents Fuel Homelessness
Two recent Zillow studies show that sky-high rents are fueling the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles and other major cities. Alarmingly, homeless deaths in 20 U.S. urban areas, including Los Angeles and San Diego, skyrocketed …
Will Progressives Ever Make Housing a Top Priority?
Housing justice activists have been increasingly pushing for the passage of rent control and the repeal of rent control bans in states and cities all over the country. Rents have skyrocketed the most out of …
Tenants Hit Back. RealPage and Corporate Landlords Face More Than 20 Lawsuits.
Across the country, tenants are hitting back after a ProPublica investigation found that RealPage, a Big Tech firm based in Texas, helps a cartel of corporate landlords to wildly inflate rents. So far, RealPage and …
Housing Is A Human Right’s Top 5 Most-Read Stories of 2022
As part of our cutting-edge advocacy, Housing Is A Human Right publishes award-winning advocacy journalism in the News section of our website. We write with a grassroots perspective that mainstream reporters don’t often provide; we …