Many of the largest corporate landlords in the country are once again beefing up the coffers of the California Apartment Association, aiming to buy political favors, kill tenant protections, and shut down the vital work …
Did Trump and Corporate Landlords Target Planned Parenthood and AIDS Healthcare Foundation?
Last month, a federal judge in Massachusetts issued a preliminary injunction for Planned Parenthood that stops the Trump administration’s effort to essentially defund that organization. The political and legal issues involved in the Planned Parenthood …
The Real Dirt: California YIMBY and Big Tech Kill Tenant Protections, YIMBY Action Parties Hard, Following Big Real Estate’s Money
The Real Dirt is a monthly column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. This month, Housing Is A …
Exclusive: Tech Execs and Venture Capitalists Spend Big to Help California YIMBY Kill Tenant Protections
California YIMBY has a lot of explaining to do. While middle- and working-class tenants struggle to pay sky-high rents, wealthy tech executives and venture capitalists, most of whom are based in the Bay Area, are …
Cities Across United States are Banning Price-Fixing Software for Rental Housing
A growing movement to ban price-fixing software for rental housing continues to spread across the United States. As a result of the RealPage scandal, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Jersey City, and recently Hoboken have passed …
Exposing California Apartment Association’s Multi-Million-Dollar Campaign to Stop Rent Control
Earlier this year, Patrick Range McDonald, the award-winning advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, published an eye-opening exposé on his Medium page about the California Apartment Association’s deep-pocketed campaign to stop Proposition 33, …
As Californians Fought Corporate Landlords, YIMBY Action Partied with Big Real Estate’s Cash
Last year, while Californians battled Big Real Estate to pass a pro-rent control ballot measure called Proposition 33, corporate landlords and other uber-wealthy real estate insiders shelled out cash to pay for a YIMBY Action …
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Housing Is A Human Right has published numerous special reports and articles over the years, including our investigation that won the “Best Activism Journalism” award from the Los Angeles Press Club (see below). They provide …
California Apartment Association Uses Deep-Pocketed Influence to Delay Crucial Pro-Tenant Bill
Once again, the California Apartment Association has shown that it only cares about guarding Big Real Estate’s outsized profits by delaying a crucial state bill that would have helped millions of tenants struggling through the …
The Real Dirt: The RealPage Scandal, Big Real Estate Hires Fake Activists, Reining In the Oligarchs
The Real Dirt is a regular column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. Big news came …