Mike Balog has resisted eviction from his rent-controlled apartment for nearly ten years. The strain is wearing him down, but he has nowhere to go.
Facing eviction after 30 years, Mike Balog says moving out would mean losing his community, part of his identity and having nowhere else to go.
The city could guarantee payment to lawyers who win cases for renters, as alleged abuses continue despite 2021 anti-harassment law.
The renters’ caucus is pushing to win both protections and political clout for the state’s 17 million renters.
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.
Inside the latest, smallest group in the California Legislature.
Councilmembers blocked by the trio now see opportunity for housing reforms.
Political giving by the Los Angeles mayoral candidate tops $1 million since 2020.
The 2021 Tenant Anti-Harassment Ordinance lacks staff, money and will to enforce.
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.
Tenants in Los Angeles and San Francisco claim they are being targeted by their corporate landlord.
During the pandemic, legal safeguards were created to help unemployed renters. But some families can still fall through the cracks.
Has a Montgomery Street company arrived in Southern California to flip rent-controlled apartments into market rate units?
A Bay Area rent strike could be a harbinger of tenant unrest as California prepares for an eviction tsunami triggered by the pandemic.
But a county ordinance kicks in too late to help others.
Taylor Equities’ purchase of a 36-unit building was followed by renter complaints of harassment and disruptive construction. Then came the eviction notices.
The City Council is considering a ‘right to counsel’ program that could help curb evictions and homelessness.
Today we continue our look back at 2017 through Capital & Main’s photos and stories.
Christian and her neighbors who live on a gentrifying block near the University of Southern California have formed an association to fight their eviction, hoping there is power in numbers.