In 2017, Public Advocates co-founded Housing Now!—a coalition dedicated to winning ​housing justice and to holding state decision makers accountable to the community by seeking, among other things, to challenge uncontrolled rent increases and the repeal of Costa-Hawkins, a law placing severe limitations on local rent control policies. The work of this unstoppable coalition resulted in the passage of AB 1482, the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, bringing into effect the first statewide rent regulation and just cause eviction protections in California. That was followed by enactment in August, 2020 of the Small Landlord Relief and Stabilization Act of 2020 with its statewide eviction moratoria during the height of the Covid pandemic.