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Tenants and Activists Around the World Must Band Together to Fight Corporate Landlords

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 4d

More than ever, we need people to unite to rein in the greed of corporate landlords.

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Only a global people-power movement will finally rein in predatory corporate landlords and wildly inflated rents.

The Real Dirt: Capital Realty Group, Billionaire Steve Schwarzman, Corporate YIMBYs

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI: The newest edition of The Real Dirt!

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The Real Dirt digs into tenants taking on Capital Realty Group, Stephen Schwarzman's lake controversy, and Corporate YIMBYs.

Greystar and other landlords agree to a $141M deal to settle a rent-setting lawsuit

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 5d

Politicians must continue to hold RealPage and corporate landlords accountable for wildly inflating rents across the U.S.

And they must ban rent-fixing software.

Greystar and 25 other property management companies have agreed to pay over $141 million to settle a class action lawsuit.

apnews.com

Rent-Stabilization Laws Are Essential for Protecting Tenants, Say Experts

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 5d

Writing at the Harvard Business Review, top experts explain that rent stabilization is crucial for protecting hard-working tenants against predatory corporate landlords.

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A white paper published in the Harvard Business Review says rent-stabilization laws will help fix the housing affordability crisis.

Rent control will immediately stabilize the housing affordability crisis and save lives. Activists urge Californians to vote "yes" on Prop 33.

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 8d

Rent control saves lives.

Learn more by reading out article.

Rent Control Saves Lives

Tenants and Activists Around the World Must Band Together to Fight Corporate Landlords

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Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 8d

Only a global people-power movement can protect tenants and rein in predatory corporate landlords.

Read our article.

Only a global people-power movement will finally rein in predatory corporate landlords and wildly inflated rents.

Students Mobilize to Put Rent Control on the Ballot in 2026 | News | The Harvard Crimson

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 9d

We applaud Harvard students for working to bring rent regulations to Massachusetts.

It's the best way to urgently protect tenants and to rein in predatory corporate landlords.

As a regional housing crisis grinds on in the wider Boston area, Harvard students are mobilizing in an effort to bring back rent control to Massachusetts — three decades after a contentious…

www.thecrimson.com

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Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 9d

ICYMI: It's time for the newest edition of The Real Dirt by our award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald.

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The Real Dirt: Capital Realty Group, Billionaire Steve Schwarzman, Corporate YIMBYs

The Real Dirt digs into tenants taking on Capital Realty Group, Stephen Schwarzman's lake controversy, and Corporate YIMBYs.

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Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 10d

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The Real Dirt: Capital Realty Group, Billionaire Steve Schwarzman, Corporate YIMBYs

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 10d

It's the end of the month, and that means it's time for the newest edition of The Real Dirt.

Read it now!

The Real Dirt digs into tenants taking on Capital Realty Group, Stephen Schwarzman's lake controversy, and Corporate YIMBYs.

Modern-Day Robber Baron: The Sins of Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 11d

They wrote: “The ‘Schwarzman Centre’ will be built with the proceeds of the exploitation and disenfranchisement of vulnerable people across the world. It is through association with universities like MIT, Yale, and now Oxford, that Schwarzman seeks to legitimise these practices.”

Our report below.

Blackstone CEO and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman has been a key player in the worsening global housing affordability crisis. Activists want to rein him in.

William Hague: how we got a rich US donor to pay £185m for our new arts centre

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Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 11d

As we noted in "Modern-Day Robber Baron," Oxford faculty and students weren't happy about billionaire corporate landlord Steve Schwarzman's donation.

See second post for their quote. 1/2

Oxford’s chancellor reveals the largest single gift the university has ever received — a vast, visionary British building made of York brick, Sheffield steel and Rutland stone

thetimes.com

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Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 11d

ICYMI: Only a global people-power movement can rein in billionaire corporate landlords.

Read our important article!

Tenants and Activists Around the World Must Band Together to Fight Corporate Landlords

Only a global people-power movement will finally rein in predatory corporate landlords and wildly inflated rents.

Salinas City Council sends renter protections to voters in 2026 election

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 12d

We urge Salinas voters to approve the pro-affordable housing, pro-tenant ballot measure in November 2026.

Hard-working tenants must be protected against predatory landlords.

The Salinas City Council has made its call on renter protections. After months of debate, the issue is headed to the ballot.

www.kcbx.org

Colossal Diesel Capacity of Trump-Donor’s UK Data Centre

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 12d

More controversy involving billionaire corporate landlords Steve Schwarzman.

His company spent millions to kill pro-rent control ballot measures in California.

Blackstone, a U.S. private equity firm run by a Trump-donating billionaire, is building a gargantuan £10 billion AI-ready data centre in the UK with a fleet of backup diesel generators so big that it…

www.desmog.com

Tenants and Activists Around the World Must Band Together to Fight Corporate Landlords

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 15d

ICYMI: Corporate landlords have the billions. We have the people power.

A global people-power movement will protect tenants and rein in predatory landlords.

Only a global people-power movement will finally rein in predatory corporate landlords and wildly inflated rents.

King County Council bans rent-setting technology

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 15d

We applaud the King County Council in Washington for banning rent-fixing software.

To protect hard-working tenants, more elected leaders across the country need to do the same!

The King County Council banned algorithmic rent fixing, but landlords see possible pitfalls in the way the ordinance is written.

www.seattletimes.com

ABP and Greystar invest €526 million in Dutch housing market

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 16d

Our friends in the Netherlands should know that Greystar has spent big money to stop the expansion of rent control in California.

It's also been entangled the rent-fixing scandal involving RealPage software and the collusion of its corporate clients.

ABP, the pension fund for government and education employees in the Netherlands, is investing €500 million in the Dutch Essential Housing Venture with Greystar. The investme...

www.property-magazine.eu

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Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 16d

EXCLUSIVE: A global people-power movement is needed to fight predatory corporate landlords and urgently address the worldwide housing affordability crisis.

Read our important article!

Tenants and Activists Around the World Must Band Together to Fight Corporate Landlords

Only a global people-power movement will finally rein in predatory corporate landlords and wildly inflated rents.

Renters left out of the housing-solution conversation

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Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 16d

As this excellent op-ed points out, rent-burdened tenants feel abandoned by the YIMBY movement, especially when YIMBYs work with Big Real Estate to kill tenant protections.

YIMBY = Big Real Estate

#IDHABY (I Don’t Have A Backyard)

Renters left out of the housing-solution conversation: Rent-burdened Californians argue that YIMBY promises fail to deliver affordability.

eastbayexpress.com

Economists Say Rent Control Works

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 17d

Now Big Real Estate is saying that virtually all tenant protections are bad for business.

It's self-serving nonsense -- and top economists have explained why.

Read our article.

A group of 32 prominent economists find that rent control is an effective tool to protect middle- and working-class tenants.

The Corporate Home-Search Site Making Housing Unaffordable

Housing Is A Human Right @housinghumanright.bsky.social · 17d

"In California, the most expensive housing market in the country, investors own one in five homes, and research has shown that investor-owned properties have higher rents and eviction rates and shoddier maintenance upkeep."

Homebuilding giant Lennar has launched an e-marketplace, with a potential “kickback scheme,” to help corporate landlords buy up properties and raise rents.

www.levernews.com