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Top Five Flaws of Stanford University Study on Rent Control

In Featured, News by Patrick Range McDonaldJanuary 18, 2023

For more than five years, reporters and the real estate industry continue to cite a seriously flawed and misleading study on rent control by Stanford University researchers. At the same time, reporters almost never mention …

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Academic Heavyweights to Naysayers: Rent Control Works

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldSeptember 14, 2022

It wasn’t long ago that researchers at the University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, and UCLA released key studies that found rent control is an effective tool to keep people housed and to stabilize the …

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UPDATE: Big Real Estate’s Top 10 Campaign Contributors That Oppose Proposition 21

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldAugust 19, 2020

Since last month, Big Real Estate has nearly doubled its millions in campaign contributions to stop Proposition 21. Leading the charge, Essex Property Trust, helmed by CEO Mike Schall (pictured above), is the top contributor …

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Multi-Millionaire Landlord Tod Spieker Wants to Kill Proposition 21

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldAugust 13, 2020

Many years ago, at UCLA, Richard “Tod” Spieker was an All-America swimmer, whose legacy was enshrined when the school’s state-of-the-art aquatics center was named after him. Today, in 2020, Spieker, a multi-millionaire landlord in Palo …

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Will the Corporate Greed of Essex Property Trust CEO Mike Schall Destroy California?

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldJune 28, 2020

For Essex Property Trust CEO Mike Schall, it’s all about the money — no matter who gets hurt. Slamming seniors with huge rent increases and forcing them out of their homes is a standard way …

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California’s Housing Affordability Crisis Demands the Rental Affordability Act

In News by Housing Is A Human RightJuly 5, 2019

Californians are getting slammed by a devastating, ongoing housing affordability crisis. They need help now. Top experts at prestigious colleges such as USC, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Columbia University agree that rent control is a …

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Columbia University Professor Debunks Anti-Rent Control Arguments

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldApril 16, 2019

In recent months, a growing list of top experts, including academics from USC, UCLA, and UC Berkeley, have been debunking anti-rent control arguments. Now Columbia University Business School Professor Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh joins the ranks. …

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California Needs Rent Control to Urgently Address Housing Affordability Crisis

In News by StaffApril 5, 2019

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 …

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Selling Out California: Scott Wiener’s Money Ties to Big Real Estate

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldMarch 26, 2019

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 …

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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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