Housing Is A Human Right presents another special report about the power players responsible for the housing affordability crisis. For this investigation, we examine Blackstone Group CEO and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman, one of the largest …
Big Real Estate Gears Up to Stop Rental Affordability Act
A year away from Election Day, the real estate industry is already gearing up for a pitched battle against the housing justice movement in California. Heavyweights Essex Property Trust, the California Apartment Association, and Equity …
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. …
Frontline Activist Sees the Real-Life Damage of Housing Affordability Crisis
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 …
Runaway Corporate Landlord Greed Threatens A Family’s Way of Life
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 …
In California, Big Real Estate Spent $77.3 Million To Stop Rent Control
A Housing Is A Human Right investigation found that powerful, real estate players shelled out a whopping $77.3 million to stop Proposition 10 in California. They spent heavily to halt the grassroots effort to urgently …