Best-selling author & award-winning journalist
As Californians struggle with a worsening housing affordability crisis, I decided to profile the crucial work of housing justice activists fighting for stronger tenant protections. All of them, I found out, were engaged in underdog battles against influential lobbyists, indifferent politicians, and politically connected landlords and developers. Read more...
For my advocacy journalism work for Housing Is A Human Right, I delved into the backroom politics that fuel gentrification and housing affordability crises in Los Angeles and throughout California. I examined specifically the housing records of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and California State Sen. Read more...