The Truth About Costa Hawkins Repeal As Big Real Estate spends millions to defeat California’s Prop 10 (which repeals the Costa Hawkins Act), its falsehoods are coming fast and furious. Here are five of the biggest.

1. “Costa Hawkins Repeal Will

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LATEST CES REPORT–The City of Los Angeles saw 997 more Ellis Act Eviction application filed by landlords and developers for the first half of 2018, January through June. This is the equivalent of losing nearly 5 1/2 Rent Stabilization Ordinance
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This piece first appeared in Capital and Main. If privatization is making American education the Wild West for those wishing to profit off children using public dollars, then Los Angeles Unified is its Tombstone. We wanted the launch of Learning
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(Ed Note: The original version of this story projected a Beckles victory which has since been confirmed) Breaking: Late Returns Project Beckles Victory If you think ranked choice voting is to blame for San Francisco’s lengthy mayoral vote count, take
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Leno Likely to be SF’s Next Mayor After many declared her mayor-elect, London Breed saw her night long lead give way to a shift of second choice votes from Jane Kim to Mark Leno, giving Leno a roughly 1000 vote
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Who Will Win the Key CA, East Bay and SF Races? It’s time for our election predictions. And not a second too soon.  Even the shortened San Francisco mayor’s race seems to have gone on too long. Most voters are
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This piece originally appeared in Capital and Main. Only about one percent of Los Angeles County’s homeless are able to have full-time jobs, says a report prepared by the Economic Roundtable. The single most common reason given by people for
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