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Californians Can’t Afford the Rent. It’s Still Too Damn High!

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldMay 4, 2021

After years of sky-rocketing rents in California, one thing has disturbingly remained the same: the rent is still too damn high. Recent data shows that the Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Oakland metro …

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California Housing Activists See the Street-Level Damage of Coronavirus

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldApril 3, 2020

Last year, I visited housing activists throughout California, asking them about the street-level impacts of gentrification and unfair, sky-high rents in their cities. We also talked about the powerful influence of the real estate industry …

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In San Diego, Vulnerable Tenants Are Just Numbers on a Spreadsheet

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldNovember 18, 2019

In San Diego, activist Rafael Bautista is fighting a seemingly impossible fight. Landlords do whatever they want. Developers build whatever they want. And city politicians do next to nothing about the troubling practices of landlords …

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More Than 625,000 Signatures Qualify Rental Affordability Act for 2020 Ballot in California

In News by Housing Is A Human RightOctober 17, 2019

Housing Is a Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is excited to announce that it has amassed more than 625,000 signatures to qualify the Rental Affordability Act for California’s statewide ballot …

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Rent Control Advocates File for New California Statewide Ballot Measure for 2020

In News by Housing Is A Human RightMay 1, 2019

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 …

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom Signals Urgent Response to Housing Crisis

In News by Housing Is A Human RightJanuary 10, 2019

California’s housing affordability and homelessness crises need a muscular response from local and state legislators. With today’s release of Governor Gavin Newsom’s state budget, Housing Is A Human Right is encouraged that the governor is …

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Frontline Activist Sees the Real-Life Damage of Housing Affordability Crisis

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldJanuary 6, 2019

Georgina Serrano, an enthusiastic, big-hearted woman, is a community organizer in Los Angeles for Inquilinos Unidos, a housing justice nonprofit. She works, each day, on the frontlines of California’s housing affordability crisis. She’s never seen …

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Runaway Corporate Landlord Greed Threatens A Family’s Way of Life

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldJanuary 5, 2019

Derek Steele is an activist — but first and foremost a father and husband. When he and his wife were hit with two major rent increases in the past two years, with nothing to protect …

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More Than 525 Organizations and Leaders Form Diverse Housing Coalition in California

In News by Housing Is A Human RightNovember 15, 2018

During California’s Proposition 10 campaign, 527 organizations and civic leaders endorsed the statewide ballot measure that would have allowed cities and counties to expand rent control policies. Prop 10 was not approved, but a broad …

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The Battle for Fair, Affordable Housing Has Only Just Begun, Says AHF

In News by Housing Is A Human RightNovember 7, 2018

As Proposition 10 supporters gathered in Hollywood to watch returns on the statewide ballot initiative that would have ended restrictions on rent control in California, Michael Weinstein, one of the citizen proponents of Prop 10 …

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