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Why Is California YIMBY Hiding the Names of Big-Money Contributors?

In Featured, News by Patrick Range McDonaldApril 20, 2022

California YIMBY, the land-use lobbying group for Big Tech, continues to hide behind its nonprofit status and refuses to reveal exactly who contributes the big bucks to the organization. California YIMBY CEO Brian Hanlon has …

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‘Selling Off California’ Exposes Corporate YIMBYs’ Ties to Big Tech and Big Real Estate

In News by StaffMarch 22, 2022

Corporate YIMBYs have repeatedly tried to frame themselves as housing justice activists, but that’s far from the truth. In fact, a new book titled Selling Off California: The Untold Story reveals that Corporate YIMBYs have …

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Special Investigation: California Apartment Association’s Deep-Pocketed Campaign To Kill Tenant Protections

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldNovember 13, 2021

Housing Is A Human Right routinely publishes special reports about the real estate industry and the politicians and YIMBYs who carry out Big Real Estate’s agenda. One of our reports — “The Garcetti-fication of Los …

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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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EXCLUSIVE: The Big Real Estate Executives Who Are Calling the Shots to Stop Prop 21

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldAugust 18, 2020

On Thursday, July 16, a little before noon, Essex Property Trust executive John Eudy sent an email to his deep-pocketed colleagues in the real estate industry, asking for campaign contributions — $100 per apartment — …

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Barons of Big Real Estate Want You to Help Them Make Billions

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldJuly 21, 2020

In a few months, Californians will vote by mail or walk into the local polling place and decide if Proposition 21, the ballot measure that limits unfair rent increases, should be passed. For middle- and …

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California’s Proposition 21 is a Movement About Justice, and Big Real Estate Is Scared Silly

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldJuly 15, 2020

From California to New York, the news has not been good. Millions losing their jobs and facing eviction. Unaffordable rents in every state in the nation. Homelessness surging in the suburbs. If there was ever …

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Is Billionaire Landlord Sam Zell the Quintessential Corporate Vulture?

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldJune 20, 2020

Sam Zell, chairman of Equity Residential and Equity LifeStyle Properties, is worth $4.8 billion. He has more money than he knows what to do with. Yet as Californians struggle through the COVID-19 pandemic and housing …

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Inside Game: California YIMBY, Scott Wiener, and Big Tech’s Troubling Housing Push

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldJanuary 13, 2020

In this special report, Housing Is A Human Right advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the financial ties and behind-the-scenes connections between Big Tech, California YIMBY, and State Sen. Scott Wiener. Largely unknown until now, …

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Big Real Estate Gears Up to Stop Rental Affordability Act

In News by Patrick Range McDonaldNovember 8, 2019

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 …

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