an L.A. tenant rights nonprofit. She said she independently started this effort to track rent gouging by launching a crowd-sourced online spreadsheet. “For lack of a better word, it became viral ...

an L.A. tenant rights nonprofit. She said she independently started this effort to track rent gouging by launching a crowd-sourced online spreadsheet. “For lack of a better word, it became viral ...

My trusty spreadsheet reviewed a year-end rent report from property-manager ... an extra thousand bucks cheaper than buying. And a tenant doesn’t need a spare $155,000 to put toward a 20% ...

With so many displaced, people are offering double, triple the rent, “offering to pay six months rent up front.” ...

Here’s what “The Rent Brigade” found after combing through 1,343 Zillow posts that appear to have broken California’s ban on post-fire price gouging.

Some of the illegal listings on the spreadsheet have since been ... eviction moratoriums and rent relief programs to protect tenants from potential homelessness. The policies worked for a time ...

The measure bans increases in rent for a tenant’s first 12 months living in a home ... online support center resource for ...

How my experience renting in NYC sparked change.

When reached by phone, the longtime Los Angeles tenants’ rights ... reasoning behind their rent price hike. She is mostly unmoved: “What I love most about this spreadsheet right now is how ...

Reported rent hikes averaged 51%, with three property owners alleged to have sought a 10-fold price jump. Chelsea Kirk, an organizer with the L.A. Tenants Union, created the spreadsheet after ...

A judge shot down an appeal against an eviction after finding that the tenants failed to pay rent and likely “made up” receipts to buy time. According to a judgment in January, an eviction order was ...

The measure bans increases in rent for a tenant’s first 12 months living ... for landlords and provide landlords a model lease template to help them comply with the law. Seattle landlord Gordon ...