Thanks to CityWatch LA for publishing our very important article about the failure of trickle-down housing.
It's a must-read!
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When tenants unite, we often win -- one way or another.
If American tenants want to rein in corporate landlords and other predatory landlords, we need to band together and fight back.
Billionaire Steve Schwarzman, who's mentioned in this piece, also spent millions to kill rent control in California.
Then Schwarzman and other corporate landlords could keep charging outrageous rents.
Top researchers say the trickle-down housing agenda pushed by Big Real Estate and YIMBYs won’t solve the housing affordability crisis.
Read our article for the details.
Read this super important exposé by our award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald.
It's a story that's not been told by the mainstream media.
ICYMI: Read our important op-ed at the Times of San Diego.
Rent control saves lives!
Tell your elected leaders to implement the "3 Ps" to solve the housing affordability and homelessness crises.
Protect tenants through rent control and other protections. Preserve existing affordable housing, don't demolish it. Produce new affordable and homeless housing.
"Tenant organizers, affordable housing developers, and labor unions are confronting the same underlying economic forces and need to stand together against the billionaires and business interests driving [economic] inequality."
Big Real Estate and YIMBY leaders have been telling lies for years.
We need more affordable housing -- not more luxury apartments -- to solve the housing affordability crisis that's slamming hard-working tenants.
It's a no-brainer.
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Unlike the mainstream media, we write from the tenant-activist perspective.
Corporate landlord Steve Schwarzman made $1.2 BILLION last year by charging outrageous rents and evicting people.
Rent control is the only way to rein in greed-driven predatory landlords.
We've said it for years: trickle-down housing doesn't urgently help people who are getting slammed by sky-high rents.
We need the "3 Ps": protect tenants, preserve existing affordable housing, produce new affordable and homeless housing.
Our recent op-ed about a growing rent control movement is getting picked up by news outlets across the country.
It's a must-read!
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Across the country, corporate landlords are buying up mobile home parks and then charge outrageous rents.
Only rent control will rein in predatory landlords.
“Throughout Canadian history, private developers and landlords took advantage of various crises to enrich themselves. The property-owning class’s impetus to exploit the universal need for shelter is a constant.”
It's the same in the U.S. and around the world -- we need strong tenant protections.
“Housing has become a cut-throat business driven purely by profit. The social sense of what housing provides has largely been eroded.”
It's why politicians must pass strong tenant protections, including rent control.
Thanks to CityWatch LA for publishing our important story about corporate landlord Essex Property Trust.
It's a must-read!
We applaud the Waterville City Council in Maine for protecting mobile home owners against predatory corporate landlords.
Only rent control will rein in predatory landlords.
The RealPage scandal has harmed hard-working tenants across America.
We applaud Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for holding a corporate landlord accountable and standing up for tenants.
More elected leaders must do the same.
Rental registries are essential for holding landlords accountable and preventing predatory business practices.
In the end, rental registries protect tenants.
ICYMI: Read our important op-ed at The Progressive magazine.
It explains why a rent control movement is rising up in the United States to address the housing affordability crisis.
ICYMI: Read our exclusive investigation into Essex Property Trust, one of the largest corporate landlords in the country.
Essex Property Trust has spent tens of millions in campaign cash to kill tenant protections in California so it can keep charging sky-high rents.
As a follow up to an earlier post, read this article about how corporate landlords are using an obscure political committee to influence politicians and kill protections for hard-working tenants.
Elected leaders must stand up for renters!
Thanks to The Progressive magazine for publishing our very important op-ed about the rising rent control movement in the U.S.
It's a must-read!
Housing Is A Human Right has found that Essex Property Trust shelled out a whopping $60.1 million in campaign cash to kill tenant protections in California.
Read our exclusive!
People-power is the only way for tenants to successfully fight corporate landlords.
In fact, we need a unified, people-power movement to take on Big Real Estate.
For years, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, our parent organization, has stood up for hard-working tenants and fought predatory corporate landlords.
AHF and HHR will always fight for what's right!
