Housing Justice

Public Advocates staff attorney Ruby Acevedo is interviewed as part of Spanish Telemundo TV coverage of the impact of the crisis on renters. The interview was broadcast on the 11pm newscast aired [...]

Does a New Federal Law Protect You From Eviction?

With rent due for millions of people in California, the patchwork of protections can be confusing. See these overviews of various protections now in place at the federal level, in English and [...]

From Western Center on Law & Poverty, Disability Rights California and California Rural Legal Assistance Updated Analysis of CA Gov Eviction Executive Order  

Nitasha Tiku of the Washington Post reports that the construction of mansions and other luxury housing is continuing in the S.F. Bay Area despite the shelter in place order intended to slow the [...]

Bay City News reports on the Appeals Court ruling last week that charter cities are not exempt from the state law known as the Surplus Land Act when they’re deciding what to do with public [...]

Matt Levin of CalMatters and Liam Dillon of the Los Angeles Times, co-host Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis Podcast. Featured are Michelle Pariset of Public Advocates and Assemblyman [...]

November 8, 2018 – Liam Dillon of the Los Angeles Times writes about next steps for tenant advocates after Proposition 10 failed to pass. Proposition 10 would have repealed Costa-Hawkins, a [...]

Tony Bizjak reports for the Sacramento Bee that the city is coming closer to passing rent control with competing proposals. Public Advocates’ Michelle Pariset is quoted. Sacramento [...]

Capital Radio show Insight with Beth Ruyak takes a look at rent control in Sacramento. During the program, Public Advocates’ Michelle Pariset comments on the effort to pass rent control in [...]