Special Investigation: California Apartment Association’s Deep-Pocketed Campaign To Kill Tenant Protections Housing Is A Human Right reveals the California Apartment Association's statewide effort to kill tenant protections through campaign cash.

And there you go. You start to understand how political influence works in California. We actually wrote a special report about it. Until next time...

So the CAA takes contributions from landlords, and then directs that money to local & state pols. It's a kind of shell game.

The pols, in other words, aren't really taking money from the CAA. They're taking money from all the landlords that first delivered cash to the CAA.

Then you'll see those contributions, such as $9,100 from a corporate landlord called Sequoia Equities.

You can also click on "Contributions Received," meaning contributions from landlords and other real estate entities to the CAA.

You can look for campaign contributions made, received, etc. Just click on the circle that comes before the item you want to search.

You can look for different years that campaign contributions were made, etc. Here's an example.

You'll then see this.

Third, type who you want to search. In this case, the California Apartment Association Political Action Committee, which is one of four PACs operated by the CAA.

You'll see these results.

Click on the bottom result.

Second, use the Cal-Access Search engine in the upper left-hand corner. (We're doing this on a laptop.)

First, go to Cal-Access at the CA Secretary of State website. cal-access.sos.ca.gov/default.aspx

We often investigate the California Apartment Association because it's funded by corporate landlords, and the CAA carries out Big Real Estate's agenda.

So we like to examine the CAA's campaign contributions. It's something you can do, too.

We'll go through the steps now.

Predatory Corporate Landlords Target Black Tenants for Eviction, Says New UCLA Study Predatory corporate landlords are targeting Black tenants for eviction in the Los Angeles area, an eye-popping UCLA study finds.

ICYMI: A new UCLA study has found that corporate landlords are preying upon Black tenants in the LA area.

Read our article for the details.

Economists Say Rent Control Works A group of 32 prominent economists find that rent control is an effective tool to protect middle- and working-class tenants.

Top economists have made it clear: rent control works.

Read our article for the details.

We're participating in the "Fight the Oligarchy" Rally in LA today with @sanders.senate.gov and @aoc.bsky.social.

Corporate landlords are part of that oligarchy, and we need rent regulations to stop their predatory greed.

Join us in that fight! #fighttheoligarchy

As Nation’s Largest Corporate Landlords Keep Growing, Rent Control is Needed More Than Ever A new top 50 list by the National Multifamily Housing Council shows that corporate landlords are growing, underlining the need for rent control.

Corporate landlords are part of the oligarchy -- and their only growing.

More than ever, we need rent control to protect tenants across the United States.

People Are Working Hard, But They’re Still Homeless In the new book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, journalist Brian Goldstone examined the mean reality that people…

The rents are too damn high!

We need to Protect tenants through rent control; Preserve existing affordable housing; and Produce new affordable and homeless housing.

The "3 Ps" work.

'Stop the Red Tape' Protest: Housing Is A Human Right to Wrap LA City Hall in Red Tape Ribbon Housing Is A Human Right and the National Coalition for the Homeless will wrap L.A. City Hall in red tape to protest delays in building homeless housing.

On April 22, Housing Is A Human Right will wrap LA City Hall in red tape to protest the years of delays to build permanent homeless housing caused by government bureaucracy.

More than 45,000 unhoused individuals in LA need help now!

Click on the link for details.

‘3 Ps’ is a Winning Solution for the Housing Affordability Crisis Residents should urge politicians to use the "3 Ps": protect tenants, preserve existing affordable housing, produce new affordable housing.

Los Angeles elected leaders must implement the "3 Ps": Protect tenants; Preserve existing affordable housing; Produce new affordable and homeless housing.

The 3 Ps is a multi-pronged strategy that works!

We protested at LA City Hall today, telling City Council members to stop the red tape.

City bureaucracy has delayed the construction of more affordable and homeless housing, with people dying on the streets.

Stop the red tape! #HousingNow

Landlord pricing software under fire in Evanston The city of Evanston wants to ban software from companies including RealPage that allegedly results in landlord price-fixing.

Price-fixing software used by corporate landlords has fueled the housing affordability crisis.

Politicians must ban it -- and protect tenants against predatory landlords.

Protestors wrap L.A. City Hall in red ribbon, demand housing for homeless The nonprofit group says single-room occupancy hotels, known as SROs, can be easily renovated for the homeless.

ICYMI: Yesterday, we held a "Stop the Red Tape" protest at LA City Hall.

Because of city bureaucracy, the construction of the affordable and homeless housing has often been delayed for years.

We must stop the red tape -- and more urgently build affordable and homeless housing.

RealPage's Local Regulatory Battles Heat Up With New Lawsuits An attorney for RealPage indicated more lawsuits might be on the way.

RealPage's price-fixing software is used by a cartel of corporate landlords to charge wildly inflated rents.

We urge politicians in California and other states to ban such software. It has fueled the housing affordability crisis.

Always Scheming to Kill Tenant Protections, California Apartment Association Weakens Rent Stabilization in Concord California Apartment Association, funded by corporate landlords, have fought to weaken a rent stabilization ordinance in Concord, California.

The California Apartment Association will go anywhere in the state to stop tenant protections.

It's no surprise: the CAA is the front group for many of the largest corporate landlords in the nation.

The Real Dirt: The Greed of California Apartment Association, Invitation Homes, and Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman This month's edition of "The Real Dirt" exposes the California Apartment Association, Invitation Homes, and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman.

ICYMI: Check out our monthly column that exposes the latest scandals and shadiness of the real estate industry.

It's a must-read!

AHF Opens First AIDS Hospice For Terminally Ill - AIDS Healthcare Foundation With private and public funding, AHF opens the first full-service AIDS hospice in Los Angeles County. The organization provides housing and medical care to terminally ill AIDS patients at a time when ...

In 1988, @aidshealthcare.bsky.social opened its first hospice, providing housing and medical-care to terminally AIDS patients.

AHF continues that vital work by providing low-income housing and carrying out housing advocacy. Housing is a public health issue.

Join us at the Fighting Oligarchy Rally in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, April 12.

We want a huge presence at the rally in order to organize around justice for tenants and our unhoused community.

Join us at the Fighting Oligarchy Rally in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, April 12.

Those oligarchs include billionaire corporate landlords.

So we want a huge presence at the rally in order to organize around justice for tenants and our unhoused community.

Altadena’s Fair Oaks Burger Continues to Feed a Fire-Ravaged Community Since February 2025, the restaurant has been hosting community aid events out of its parking lot in the wake of the Eaton Fire

@aidshealthcare.bsky.social, our parent organization, has been helping LA County wildfire victims through its Food for Health program.

Here's a story about AHF's important work in Altadena.

Call California Assembly Members Now to Help Fire Ravaged Los Angeles County Housing Is A Human Right asks California residents to call state assembly members to stop rent gouging in L.A. County after the wildfires.

Call California State Assembly members to stop rent gouging in LA County after the wildfires.

Tell them to vote "yes" on AB 246.

Click below for information about calling the assembly members. Thanks!

Costa Mesa Looks To Expand Rental Assistance Families Forward, a program that seeks to prevent homelessness, could expand services to five more families for three years if federal funding is available.

Once again, the California Apartment Association and corporate landlords have tried to stop a successful renter assistance program.

Their greed knows no bounds.

We must rein in the CAA and corporate landlords through renter protections.

As Nation’s Largest Corporate Landlords Keep Growing, Rent Control is Needed More Than Ever A new top 50 list by the National Multifamily Housing Council shows that corporate landlords are growing, underlining the need for rent control.

A new top 50 list shows corporate landlords are only growing.
It further underlines the need for #RentControl.

Rent control is the only tool that will rein in predatory corporate landlords.