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Guest Commentary: Only a Housing Paradigm Shift Will Make a Difference for California

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Los Angeles County Endorses Proposition 33 to Support Rent Control

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LA County Supervisors Endorse Prop 33 Rent Control Measure

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The Homelessness Crisis = Barbarism

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Ignore the Wall Street-Funded “Science” Attacking Rent Control

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Will Corporate Landlords Spend $100 Million to Kill Prop 33 and Silence AHF?

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Opinion: 10 Crazy Housing Solutions That Don’t Work and a Couple That Do

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Corporate Landlords and California Apartment Association Raise Nearly $55 Million to Kill Prop 33 and Pass Prop 34

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Why is UC Berkeley’s Ken Rosen Trying to Deceive California Voters?

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Opinion: Yes on Prop 33 Endorsed by Labor Unions, Activists, and Civic Leaders. Which Side Are You On?

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Opinion: Housing Shortage? Luxury Housing Too Prevalent in California.

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Opinion: Rent Control is Only Way to Rein In Corporate Landlords

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Economists Say Rent Control Works

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Opinion: National Homelessness Crisis Worsens. Americans Need Rent Control.

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Californians Are Homeless Because Rent Is Too High, New Study Finds

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Opinion: LGBTQ+ Tenants Need Rent Control

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Opinion: To Fend Off Excessive Rents and Homelessness, Seniors Need Rent Control

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Sky-High Rents Fuel Homelessness

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Opinion: Rent Control is as American as Apple Pie

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Opinion: California Apartment Association and Corporate Landlords Are Public Enemy No. 1

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July 12, 2024

Rent Is THE Issue

  We all can agree there is a housing shortage, but do we really need more $4,000 a month apartments?

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July 12, 2024

Why Does Mexico City Beat LA on Homelessness?

GUEST COMMENTARY – After concluding a busy, weeklong visit to Mexico City, I remain surprised that I only saw one homeless

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July 12, 2024

YIMBY House of Cards Collapses

IMBYism has hit a rough patch. “Yes In My Back Yard” built its reputation on a series of false premises

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July 12, 2024

Opinion: Affordable housing crisis

Isn’t a city unwilling to take from the obscenely rich to help the desperately poor barbaric? Terms like barbarism should not

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July 12, 2024

Deconstructing the Affordable Housing Industrial Complex

GUEST OP/ED – Since 2019, California legislators have allocated $20.6 billion to address the housing affordability and homelessness crises, and

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July 12, 2024

Disunity Is Dangerous, Now More Than Ever

  Virtue signaling is saying things to demonstrate your moral correctness on a particular issue and often to show how

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July 12, 2024

Is California Turning into a Dust Bowl?

GUEST COMMENTARY – A young cousin of mine recently moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She and her boyfriend were lured by

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July 12, 2024

Don’t Believe Big Real Estate’s Lies in 2024

Why, despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of California voters support rent control, has it been voted down twice

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July 12, 2024

Letters to the Editor: The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a housing lifeline. It doesn’t deserve to be attacked

To the editor: It is disheartening to see The Times attack the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and its Healthy Housing Foundation

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July 12, 2024

Advocate seeks justice for renters

In a recent article, “As living costs go up, what’s in your wallet?,” the reporter noted that AvalonBay Communities is

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