The California Apartment Association, the landlord lobbying group, is one of the most powerful organizations in California. It shapes, and stops, housing policies in the back rooms of the State Capitol Building in Sacramento, and …
Charging Wildly Inflated Rents, Corporate Landlords Are Living Extravagant Lifestyles
Professional sports teams, massive luxury-car collections, 216-foot yachts, multi-million-dollar mansions. Corporate landlords, including billionaires Stephen Schwarzman (pictured above) and Sam Zell, are living extravagant lifestyles subsidized by tenants who spend huge chunks of their paychecks …
Housing Is A Human Right Urges Gov. Gavin Newsom to Veto SB 9 and SB 10
Housing Is A Human Right urges Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto SB 9 and SB 10. The state bills push harmful trickle-down policies that fuel higher rents and gentrification, and have no requirements for affordable …
Housing Is A Human Right Calls on Millennium Partners to Scrap Troubled Hollywood Project
Housing Is A Human Right and its parent organization, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, have called for Millennium Partners, a controversial luxury-housing developer, to completely abandon plans to build the Hollywood Millennium development. The call comes on …
VIDEO: Housing Is A Human Right Holds Community Hearing on Homelessness, Housing, and Hunger
On June 25, Housing Is A Human Right held the Community Hearing on Homelessness, Housing, and Hunger at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles. The event gave activists, unhoused individuals, and community leaders a …
What Is a YIMBY? (Hint: It’s Not Good)
Maybe you’ve read an article about YIMBYs or heard a friend mention the term. Or maybe you saw something on Twitter, but still don’t understand what YIMBYs are. No problem. Here’s the lowdown. To start …
Petition Shows Strong Support for Fixing Flawed Update of Hollywood Community Plan
A petition created by Housing Is A Human Right shows strong support for fixing the flawed update of the Hollywood Community Plan. More than 1,660 people have signed the petition, demanding that Mayor Eric Garcetti …
Trickle-Down Housing is a Failure. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Trickle-down housing policy, pushed by the real estate industry and politicians, has been a colossal failure. It hasn’t built the affordable housing that’s needed for California’s housing affordability crisis, and it fuels gentrification in working-class …
Housing Is A Human Right Opposes California’s SB 9 and SB 10
Housing Is A Human Right strongly opposes California State Senate bills 9 (SB 9) and 10 (SB 10). These wrong-headed policies will be a boon for developers, but ignore the long-term, negative impacts on working-class …
Californians Can’t Afford the Rent. It’s Still Too Damn High!
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 …