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Tenants Together is releasing an update to our 2015 research on Wall St. landlords in California and the impact on the lives of California tenants. There is new information on corporate consolidation, investors, financing, and where these landlords are investing in California.  Click here to... Read More
Tenants Together, in collaboration with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, has uncovered a trove of statewide court filings data that indicates half a million Californians face eviction every year.
Rent control experts have released a policy paper in response to a recent Stanford study on rent control.  In Rent Control Works: A Response to Business School Professors’ Misguided Attack on Rent Control, Dean Preston and Shanti Singh of Tenants Together, California’s statewide renters’... Read More
Who The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and digital storytelling collective documenting the dispossession of Bay Area residents in the wake of the Tech Boom 2.0. We are a collective of housing justice activists, researchers... Read More
Since 2013, there has been widespread media coverage of Wall Street’s emerging REO-(Real Estate Owned)-to-rental market, also known as the “single-family home rental market,” and new, untested, corporate revenue streams through rental securitization and, most recently, landlord loans. This... Read More
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Rent control is an effective policy solution to curb rising rents and displacement. Nineteen cities in California have some form of rent control or just cause for eviction protections: Berkeley, Beverly Hills, East Palo Alto, Emeryville, Glendale, Hayward, Los Angeles, Maywood, Mountain View,... Read More
A Statewide Survey of Tenants Renting from Wall Street Landlords
Tenants Together collaborated with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project to prepare this report. The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project has been at the forefront of collecting, analyzing and presenting data on Ellis Act evictions in San Francisco. TT wishes to acknowledge and thank Erin McElroy and Jennifer... Read More
Executive Summary The stakes are high when it comes to security deposits in California. An estimated $5 billion of tenant security deposits are held by California landlords. With an average tenancy statewide of less than three years, this means that in excess of $1 billion of deposit money annually... Read More

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