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… commemorate the 50 th anniversary of the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment—the meeting that made the environment a prominent international issue. Last week’s two-day event was both a celebration of the principles germinated during the first Stockholm Confer…
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Academic Heavyweights to Naysayers: Rent Control Works - Housing Is A Human Right It wasn’t long ago that researchers at the University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, and UCLA released key studies that found rent control is an effective tool to keep people housed and to sta…
The Citywide Devastation of the Ellis Act in Los Angeles - Housing Is A Human Right Since 2001, the Ellis Act, a controversial state law that allows landlords to evict tenants in rent-controlled buildings and turn them into pricey condominiums and boutique hotels, has devastated …
…to Use the Ellis Act to Destroy Affordable Housing in California - Housing Is A Human Right The real estate industry continues to use a little-known state law called the Ellis Act to destroy tens of thousands of affordable housing apartments in California, fueling the housing aff…
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