EBASE

Have you read the new Hidden Heist California report yet? This report by EBASE and PowerSwitch Action uncovers what it looks like when corporate landlords and real estate interests bring their playbook to our cities and towns — and it’s alarming.

In California, the California Apartment Association (CAA) and corporate real estate interests are champions of the corporate playbook, having spent nearly $300 million over the last decade and sponsoring notoriously deceptive mailers and TV ads to block community-led efforts to improve protections for renters at the state level. And some of our country’s largest corporate landlords like Blackstone and its subsidiaries, Essex Property Trust, and Avalon Bay Communities have collectively sent millions to power these campaigns.

But our latest report shows that they haven’t stopped there: In recent years, the CAA, along with corporate landlords and realtors, have swooped into smaller cities and towns like Concord, Salinas, Fairfax, and San Anselmo – using egregious buys, bullies, and bamboozles to block community efforts wherever residents dare to set renter protection policies stronger than state law.

Read the report to learn more: bit.ly/hiddenheistca (link is also in IG bio)

Also check out the recording from the recent webinar we had about the report & local rent control campaigns on the ballot this November: bit.ly/10-6webinarvideo