A Patch columnist faces a steep rental increase and must decide whether or not to continue living in San Ramon.

A Bay Area housing justice advocate reports that Berkeley is in talks to sell 75 occupied public housing units to a Florida real estate developer.

The Merced Sun-Star endorses the just cause for eviction ordinance that TT and our Merced activist members have been working for. The ordinance passed on first read November 7.

A former legal aid attorney says legal aid organizations are in trouble - at a time when disadvantaged and marginalized people need them most.

A renter says the effect of Santa Monica's rent increase is disproportionately difficult for people on fixed and low incomes.

An Oceanside citizen speaks up for how rent control in mobile home parks protects seniors and people on fixed incomes.

SF Attorney Dave Crow explains why tenants need to urge their assemblymembers adn senators to supprt AB 934. The bill will give tenants the power to fight back against wrongful eviction lawsuits.

SF Chronicle columnist's take on controversial senior evictions in San Francisco.

San Francisco Chronicle columnist thinks San Francisco needs more 3-bedroom apartments, possibly at the expense of families living in Parkmerced garden apartments.

A Berkeley scholar who grew up in the East Los Angeles Ramona Housing Gardens project argues for saving California's redevelopment agencies and affordable housing.

The San Diego Housing Federation executive director explains how redevelopment dollars invested in affordable housing can create jobs and stabilize communities.

Patrick Killelea says that in most cases, it's cheaper to borrow a house than to borrow the money to buy a house.

TT's executive director rebuts the San Francisco Chronicle's endorsement of the proposed Parkmerced project, which could eliminate 1,500 rent controlled units.

Utah HB 109, sponsored by Rep LaVar Christensen, would make it legal to evict someone based on their sexuality, as long as the landlord claims the discrimination is based in religion.

A resident of San Francisco's historical Parkmerced community explains the importance of saving this apartment complex from a proposed 30-year development project.

Santa Barbara County needs more affordable housing, but homeowners don't want it in their neighborhood, so the Lompoc Record suggests approaching the issue from a different angle.

Ukiah city council will re-adopt and re-publish a mobile home park rent stabilization ordinance to satisfy the letter of the law.

Los Angeles City Watch picks up TT's call for an apology from Judson Phillips for his suggestion that renters don't deserve to vote.

TT Executive Director Dean Preston calls on Judson Phillips to apologize for saying that renters should not be allowed to vote.

Local paper calls for Housing Authority director Rudy Montiel to call off evictions of HACLA residents who protested at his house.

Pasadena city council approves using stimulus funds to bail out a developer that wants to convert low-income senior housing to a luxury hotel.

The New York Observer responds to a New York Post article on elderly tenants in rent-controlled units.

The United Nations recognizes affordable housing as a human right. Why doesn't the United States?

A call for more-equitable rent increases in Calistoga mobile home parks.

In his ruling, Judge Walker cited the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The same clause was also cited fifty years ago when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Proposition 14, a measure passed by California voters to overturn the Rumford Fair Housing Act which banned discrimination against 'colored' property renters or buyers.

Although more than half of Fresno residents are renters, tenants lack basic protections that many other California cities have. Tenants Together director answers frequently asked questions for Fresno tenants and touches on the opportunity to strengthen tenants' rights in the Central Valley.

This Santa Monica Daily Press opinion piece addresses the upcoming convention, hosted by Santa Monicans for Renters Rights, and local election endorsements.

A letter to the editor in response to Tenants Together director Dean Preston's Op-Ed on the impact of a massive Cargill development on nearby mobilehome residents in Redwood City.

"The Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) attempt to privatize all of America's public housing has been put on hold - for now. You played an important role. Thousands of you signed the petition and spread the word, so that those at the House Financial Services Committee hearing on May 25 understood what the stakes were."

The owners of San Francisco’s Parkmerced cannot pay their mortgage, yet they want permission from the city to demolish more than 1,500 rent controlled homes. While most of the public discussion about the proposed development project has been about environmental, transit and preservation issues, the planned demolition of so many rent-controlled housing units is reason alone to stop this project.

Earlier this week housing rights advocates from eight different cities met with Reps. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Nydia Velázquez (D-NY) in Washington, D.C. to voice their opposition to a bill that they say would privatize the nation’s public housing and push what they see as alternatives.

Last month the San Francisco Business Times published a reprehensible editorial, “Tenant activists exacerbate rental housing crisis.” I’m sorry, but if being a landlord is so unpleasant, why don’t you just sell your building without evicting the tenants?

This opinion piece looks briefly at 30 years of rent control in San Francisco and argues that it has allowed many San Franciscans to live here who would have otherwise been priced out of the city. The San Francisco Tenants Union celebrates the anniversary of rent control this weekend.

In this opinion piece, the writer, who is not usually prone to government regulation, nonetheless insists that rent control is necessary to save senior mobile home park residents from homelessness.

In this blog post, Robert Doggett of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid says that banks are often issuing confusing and misleading notices to tenants in foreclosure situations.

A California blogger supports Dean Baker's proposal to give homeowners the right to rent their homes after foreclosure.

Professor of history and sociology, Thomas Sugrue argues that it's time to accept that home ownership is not a realistic goal for many people and to curtail the enormous government programs fueling this ambition.

In this OpEd piece, Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research argues that giving homeowners the right to stay in their homes as renters after foreclosure would help stem problems related with the current foreclosure crisis.

Blogger and tenant attorney Dave Crow continues his discussion about implied warranty of habitability and what tenants can do to get landlords to make needed repairs.

Mark A. Calabria of the Libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, argues that banks should be allowed to enter into long term leases with tenants to "reduce both the unnecessary eviction of renters and foreclosures on rental properties."

While everyone is talking about the foreclosure crisis and how it affects homeowners, no one seems to be addressing the crisis facing renters. This piece recommends that prospective renters go to the county recorder's office to learn about the status of the mortgage.

This New York Times editorial supports legislation introduced by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) that would help tenants in foreclosure situations.

Paul Krugman examines America's emphasis on homeownership and concludes that renters can and should share in the "American dream."

In this Sacramento Bee editorial, Peter Schrag discusses the Howard Jarvis Tax Association in light of Proposition 98.