Housing is a human right. As a strong coalition of housing justice organizations, we strive to build a world where all renters can live safe and dignified lives. …

In 2011, Tenants Together organized a network of tenants’ rights lawyers from across California. Today, the Tenant Lawyer Network (TLN) consists of over 150 attorneys statewide, who pledge to represent tenants, not landlords, in residential housing matters. …

The Committee to House the Bay Area (CASA) process has come to a close and ideas within the proposal will now move forward in 2019 through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), and likely the state legislature. …

An enormous amount of press has focused on Tuesday’s Proposition 10, and with good reason: the measure seeks to topple a horrible state law (Costa-Hawkins) and restore power to cities to expand their local rent control laws. …

No poll can tell us what will happen on November 6, 2018, or in any other election for that matter. We learned that the hard way in 2016. …

10/9/2018 California Apartment Association, Apartment Association Of Greater Los Angeles (AAGLA), San Mateo County Association of REALTORS®, and other groups representing California landlords, We are calling on you to take responsibility for educating your members on electoral ethics and holding them accountable for grave ethical violations. There are now a…

The era of unlimited profits for landlords may be drawing to an end with Prop 10 on the ballot to restore the right of cities to expand rent control. This November, voters will choose whether to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, a special interest state law that mandates gaping…

[Desplace hacia abajo para español.] Tenants’ rights are immigrants’ rights. At the heart of our fight for tenant protections is a belief that community stability is essential for the healthy, happy lives of individuals and families. Displacement of any kind tears apart our communities and negatively affects all of our…

It was a bloodbath on the Assembly floor last week. The victims: California’s poor and working class. The winners: big corporate interests — banks, landlords, and polluters. …