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!

Only three candidates for California governor have shown support for rent control/rent stabilization: Betty Yee, Tom Steyer, and Xavier Becerra. Rent control saves lives!

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We applaud the Santa Ana City Council for banning rent-gouging software used by predatory landlords. More elected officials need to do the same!

"Eventually, the state of Montana is going to have tenant unions all over it. The landlords are only interested in making profit. They aren't really considering that these are our homes. They see this as a commodity and an income.”

Politicians must pass strong laws that protect hard-working tenants against rent-gouging software used by Big Tech and Big Real Estate.

We applaud the Santa Ana City Council for moving forward to ban rent-gouging software. We need more cities and states to protect hard-working tenants against predatory business practices.

ICYMI: A respected urban planner wrote a terrific op-ed about rent control for the Boston Globe. Read our article for the details.

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Politicians need to immediately implement the "3 Ps." Protect tenants. Preserve affordable housing. Produce new affordable and homeless housing. Read our article for the details.

University of California Regents must reassess its investments in predatory corporate landlords. Here's an excellent article that explains why.

We're excited to see the North Carolina Attorney General hold corporate landlords accountable for their greed-driven business practices. We need more elected officials to do the same.

This exposé by City Paper in D.C. shows why renters need strong tenant protections -- and government that quickly enforces them.

The middle and working class need more affordable housing -- not luxury housing that people can't afford. Read our article for the details!

Read the newest edition of The Briefing at Housing Is A Human Right's Substack page. It's a must-read!

Thanks to LA Progressive for publishing our very important op-ed. Check it out!

An excellent op-ed about the need for rent stabilization. It's a must-read.

A respected urban planning professor says rent regulations work -- and Big Real Estate's anti-rent control arguments are flat-out wrong. Politicians must immediately pass rent control to help hard-working tenants.

Congratulations to tenants and activists for their big win in San Rafael. It's a victory for all of us!

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Teachers can't afford to live in San Francisco for a number of reasons, including unfair, sky-high rents. Just like many of us, teachers need affordable housing and protections against predatory landlords.

Read our very important op-ed at the Times of San Diego. Rent control saves lives!

Anti-rent control arguments are outdated and wrong. Only rent control urgently protects tenants against predatory landlords. Rent control works!

Corporate landlords have also financed anti-rent control campaigns in California and throughout the country. Only rent control will rein in the predatory business practices of Big Real Estate.

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We applaud the San Leandro City Council for adopting a rent stabilization ordinance earlier this month. Only rent regulations will urgently protect tenants against predatory landlords.

We applaud tenants and activists in Columbia, Missouri, for taking on Big Real Estate! It's another example of why we need rent control and other tenant protections to stop predatory business practices.

Thanks to David Vanguard for publishing an excellent analysis of one of our recent articles. Check it out!

ICYMI: Thanks to CityWatch LA for running our important article about the need to build more affordable housing -- first and foremost. It's a must-read!

Californians are dealing with little to no pay increases, but still have to pay exorbitant rents. In addition to paying high rents, people need better wages to save for the future, to pay for medications, to pay for food, etc. Affordable housing is crucial for one's well-being.

ICYMI: A Zillow chief economist is still right about the dire need to build more affordable housing. Big Real Estate and YIMBYs got it all wrong, which has hurt the rest of us.

Blackstone spent millions to kill the expansion of rent control in California -- so it could keep charging unfair, wildly inflated rents. Only rent control reins in corporate landlord greed.

ICYMI: Read our very important op-ed at Commons Dreams. Rent control is the American Way!

A Zillow chief economist is still right about making the construction of affordable housing a top priority. Big Real Estate and YIMBYs got it all wrong -- with disastrous results for the rest of us.

ICYMI: Read our super important op-ed at the Davis Vanguard. Rent control save lives!

Outrageous.

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Billionaire corporate landlords charge outrageous rents so they can live extravagant lifestyles. Like billionaire Steve Schwarzman, who just finished renovating another one of his lavish mansions.

YIMBYs' pro-gentrification, pro-Big Real Estate, trickle-down housing push has always been flawed -- and harmful. We've been writing about it for years. Here's a must-read article.

Politicians need to back up tenant protections with strong enforcement. Protections are nothing without government enforcing them.

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Thanks to LA Progressive for picking up our op-ed about the long tradition of rent control in America. Tenants need to be protected through rent control more than ever.

Thanks to Common Dreams for running our very important op-ed about rent control. Rent control is the American way!