Unable to walk or use her arms, Karen Mickett can work and live on her own. A mass eviction at her Los Angeles apartment complex threatens her fragile independence.
Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial executive now count on each other as renters battling corporate landlords. They are members of the largest tenants union in the country.
Once divided by gentrification, an immigrant janitor and a millennial marketing executive now count on each other as fellow renters battling corporate landlords.
The city’s ‘Right to Organize’ ordinance requires landlords to recognize tenant associations in their buildings.
The promising new tool in the fight to preserve affordable housing: a coalition of tenant unions.
The rent moratorium extension worked out in Sacramento is a flawed and incomplete emergency measure.
Rent control polls well among Californians, but statewide and local initiatives were no match for an avalanche of real estate industry cash.
“Plain folks” in ads warn against rent control – but a corporate-funded campaign by the real estate industry raises pay-to-play questions.
When Silicon Valley rents came north, Santa Rosa passed a rent control ordinance. Then the real estate industry went to war.
The real estate industry is a powerhouse opponent of rent control in California politics. But tenant activists are upping their electoral game.
The first of the month has come to strike terror in renters, while homeownership seems like a fantasy to the young. How did this happen?
A November initiative is the latest battle in a long war that has driven housing costs in the Golden State exorbitantly high.
As the pandemic’s cruelest month gave way to the merry month of May, Los Angeles was filled with demands and unrest.
Critics claim the city is not adequately enforcing a new home-sharing ordinance.
Rent-controlled properties remain on home-sharing platforms like Airbnb in violation of a new ordinance.
Bill author David Chiu implored Assembly members to imagine the impact of a massive rent increase on a typical tenant’s health, children and job.
In an era of wealth inequality, said State Sen. Connie Leyva, passing a bill to put a stop to exorbitant rent increases “is the least we can do.”
California legislation to cap rent increases looked like a done deal in Sacramento. Why, then, are Realtors dead set against it?
But a county ordinance kicks in too late to help others.
Although California’s leading politicians favor rent-cap legislation, none is on the horizon.