Growing Coalitions Back Affordability Agenda On October 8, the broadest political coalition for a California tenant protection measure in history assembled in Oakland for a signing ceremony for AB 1482 and other housing bills. Nearly every key state legislator joined
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Enforcement Must Be Top Priority AB 1482 gives an estimate eight million California tenants new rent cap and eviction protections. The challenge now shifts to enforcement. While tenant education is essential statewide, rent control jurisdictions have agencies in place to
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This piece was first published in Capital and Main. As California’s homelessness crisis burgeons, affordable housing advocates estimate that at least $8 billion of state support to public housing investment has been lost since 2012. “Every city’s percentage went up,”
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This story first appeared in the American Prospect and is co-published by Capital & Main. California’s progressive activists won a major victory in mid-September when the state legislature passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom promised to sign, a bill creating unprecedented
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Five Factors Brought Victory After years of real estate interests stopping pro-tenant legislation, California’s Legislature enacted AB 1482, a statewide rent cap and just cause eviction law. How did tenants finally prevail? Five main reasons. Production Groups Backed Protections The
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An Inspiring Event Friday Night in Berkeley In 2019, Oregon has passed a statewide anti-rent gauging/just cause eviction law and a state measure ending single-family home zoning. How did this happen? Well, Portland-based housing activist Madeline Kovacs is coming to
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(This piece first appeared in Capital and Main) The California Association of Realtors fired its first volley Wednesday in its fight to kill off a rent protection measure that is facing a final round of votes next week in the
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City Must Respond to Loss of Affordability I’m doing two talks about Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America in Sacramento on September 10 addressing the city’s affordability crisis. My timing is fitting, as Sacramento
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