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The Real Dirt: The Greed of California Apartment Association, Invitation Homes, and Billionaire Stephen Schwarzman

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 27, 2025
The Real Dirt is a regular column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. The California Apartment

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Call California Assembly Members Now to Help Fire Ravaged Los Angeles County

In Featured by Staff / Mar. 26, 2025
Housing Is A Human Right is asking all California residents to call state assembly members to urge them to vote “yes” on AB 246, a state bill that stops rent gouging in Los Angeles County.

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People Are Working Hard, But They’re Still Homeless

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 26, 2025
In the new book There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, journalist Brian Goldstone examined the mean reality that people are working hard to pay the rent, but still end up

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Invitation Homes, A Notorious Corporate Landlord, Rips Off Tenants in Los Angeles

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 25, 2025
Invitation Homes, one of the largest corporate landlords of single-family home rentals in the United States, is ripping off tenants again. This time, the company pulled a bait and switch on a Los Angeles couple

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Three Questions: Passing AB 246, the Myth of Homelessness, Supporting Rent Regulations

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 20, 2025
“Three Questions” is a regular series in which award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald and other members of Housing Is A Human Right answer your questions, or questions we’ve heard in the past, about housing

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Housing Is A Human Right Supports AB 246 to Stop Rent Gouging After LA Wildfires

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 19, 2025
Housing Is A Human Right supports California’s AB 246 to stop rent gouging after the L.A. wildfires. The state bill, authored by Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, will protect thousands of current and prospective tenants against predatory

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New Survey Shows Wide Support for Rent Stabilization from Both Republicans and Democrats

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 11, 2025
For years, unfair, sky-high rents have slammed middle- and working-class tenants across the United States, fueling homelessness. So it’s no surprise that a new survey by the Community Service Society found that big majorities of

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Corporate Landlord Stephen Schwarzman Grabbed More Than $1 Billion in 2024

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Mar. 05, 2025
Shockingly, corporate landlord Stephen Schwarzman made more than $1 billion in pay and dividends in 2024, according to Bloomberg. Schwarzman’s company, Blackstone Group, was also a major contributor, in 2024, to Big Real Estate’s successful

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Three Questions: Economics 101, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, and Gentrification

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 28, 2025
“Three Questions” is a regular series in which award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald and other members of Housing Is A Human Right answer your questions, or questions we’ve heard in the past, about housing

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The Real Dirt: Rent Gougers, Shady Campaign Cash, and Corporate YIMBYs

In Featured by Patrick Range McDonald / Feb. 26, 2025
The Real Dirt is a regular column by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald that exposes the real estate industry’s lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts, which impact the lives of millions. It’s the inaugural