A few months ago, Karina Ioffee, a no-nonsense journalist-turned-activist, had the misfortune to run up against the California Apartment Association. The CAA, one of the most powerful landlord lobbying groups in the state, is known …
In San Diego, Vulnerable Tenants Are Just Numbers on a Spreadsheet
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 …
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 …
Dolores Huerta’s Hard-Earned Wisdom
A few days ago, Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable, 89-year-old labor union and civil rights activist, wanted to share her wisdom. She stood inside a ballroom at Cal State L.A., on a platform, with a large …
State Sen. Scott Wiener Keeps Rolling In Real Estate Campaign Cash
California State Sen. Scott Wiener continues to roll in campaign cash from Big Real Estate. Housing Is A Human Right examined Wiener’s 2020 re-election campaign contributions between February and June of 2019, finding that he …
Notorious Attorney Dennis Block Fuels Eviction Crisis
Eviction attorney Dennis Block boasts to have “evicted more tenants than any other human being on the planet Earth.” He describes rent control as a “cancer,” and cheers on rising rents on Twitter. He’s made …
More Than 625,000 Signatures Qualify Rental Affordability Act for 2020 Ballot in California
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 …
‘When We Fight, We Win!’
This past weekend, inside the Morningside High School gymnasium in Inglewood, hundreds of housing activists and renters, of all ages and colors, sat together in the bleachers and talked solutions. In front of them, Lupe …
Housing Is A Human Right Applauds L.A. City Council’s Action on Eviction Crisis
Housing Is A Human Right applauds the Los Angeles City Council for starting the process to urgently address a citywide eviction crisis that’s unfolding due to unscrupulous actions by landlords and notorious eviction attorney Dennis …
Housing Is A Human Right Criticizes Insufficient AB 1482 Rent-Gouging Bill
Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom is celebrating his signing of Assembly Bill 1482, which frames itself as providing the nation’s strongest statewide renter protections. Unfortunately, AB 1482 is insufficient in providing relief to California’s 17 million …