Best-selling author & award-winning journalist
Patrick Range McDonald, the award-winning advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, has written a new book: Selling Off California: The Untold Story. It’s a must-read for understanding the powerful alliances and devastating policies that fuel the housing affordability and homelessness crises in California and around the country. Read more...
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 routinely delve into the backroom politics that fuel gentrification and housing affordability crises in California. For two special reports, I specifically examined the housing policy records of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and California State Sen. Read more...