Tenant Troubles
Rent Control Explained: History Of LA’s Tenant Protections
Rent control is a tangled web of seemingly boring rules, but it does have real effects. To supporters of the protections, the aim is about keeping things affordable and fair.
Largest US Corporate Landlords Reap Huge Profits
“Blueprint for Renters Bill of Rights” applauded by corporate landlords for doing little to rein in unfair rent increases and evictions, a new report by government watchdog Accountable.US.
How Investors Accelerate the Affordable Housing Crisis
The lack of housing affordability is the direct result of commodification – the use of residential real estate as an asset for the purposes of financial speculation and capital accumulation.
The Revolution Against Shady Landlords Has Begun
In New York, the real estate industry and the politicians in its pocket both reign supreme. These tenants have a plan to change that forever.
Housing for ‘families’ or corporate rentals?
Planning Commission approves the conversion of units that were supposed to help the housing crisis into very expensive places for short-term use.
Surveillance Camera Pointed at My Door, What Can I Do?
The “bromides” to which you refer, reflect a common apathy about the use of surveillance cameras everywhere—the slowly boiling frog approach to an “inevitable” societal slide into a police state. As long as we accept, without question, a surveillance state, the short answer to your question is: no, there isn’t much that can be done.
Landlords can ask applicants for criminal history
Cities can’t completely prohibit rental property owners from asking prospective tenants about their criminal history, although they can prohibit owners from excluding all tenants who have criminal records, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
UCLA’s secretive neoliberal housing conference
It’s worse than Davos: A one-sided policy event with no dissenters—and no reporters unless they sign gag orders.
Ellis Evictions Continue: How One Tenant Fought Back
Michelle Mattera has fought three separate eviction attempts by different landlords in her 18 years at the edge of Pacific Heights and the Western Addition.
They Don't Call 'Em Landlords For Nothing
How many times have you heard your landlord say, “This is my property and I can do anything I want?” Before you tell him to stick his "anything" where the sun don’t shine, understand that your landlord is simply a romantic. He should be wearing a cod piece and tights.
Find out how to tell your landlord to stick it.