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Housing Is A Human Right

Patrick Range McDonald Starts ‘The Real Dirt’ Column about Big Real Estate

June 17, 2025 By Staff

Patrick Range McDonald, the award-winning investigative reporter and advocacy journalist, has started a monthly column called “The Real Dirt” at the Housing Is A Human Right website. Using his deep knowledge about Big Real Estate, McDonald writes the column to expose its culture of lies, scams, and other unscrupulous acts. Read more...

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: Housing Is A Human Right, Patrick Range McDonald, real estate industry, The Real Dirt

Patrick Range McDonald Investigates Big Real Estate’s Use of Campaign Cash to Sway Elections in California

February 13, 2025 By Staff

At MacDomnhall’s on Substack, award-winning reporter Patrick Range McDonald has written a one-of-a-kind special report about the real estate industry’s use of campaign cash to sway elections and buy political favors in California. Unlike anything done by the mainstream media, it’s titled “Exposé: Big Real Estate’s Money Trails to Kill the Expansion of Rent Control in California.” Read more...

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: corporate landlords, Housing Is A Human Right, Patrick Range McDonald, Proposition 33, rent control

‘Selling Off California’ Is Finalist for Los Angeles Press Club Award

June 23, 2023 By Staff

Selling Off California: The Untold Story has been chosen as a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club award. Written by award-winning advocacy journalist Patrick Range McDonald, the must-read book exposes the powerful alliances and devastating policies that fuel the housing affordability and homelessness crises in California. Read more...

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: Housing Is A Human Right, Los Angeles Press Club, Patrick Range McDonald, Selling Off California

Patrick Range McDonald Writes New Book ‘Selling Off California’

February 16, 2022 By Staff

Housing Is A Human Right members protest pro-gentrification state bill SB 50 in California.

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. Read more...

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: corporate landlords, gentrification, housing affordability crisis, Housing Is A Human Right, Patrick Range McDonald, Scott Wiener, YIMBYs

Patrick Range McDonald Wins ‘Best Activism Journalism’ Award

September 24, 2020 By Staff

Patrick Range McDonald Garcetti-fication

Patrick Range McDonald is the winner of the “Best Activism Journalism” award from the Los Angeles Press Club. In previous years, he’s received the “Journalist of the Year” award from the L.A. Press Club and the national “Public Service” award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, among other honors. Read more...

Filed Under: Updates Tagged With: California, Fordham University, gentrification, Housing Is A Human Right, Journalism, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Press Club, Patrick Range McDonald, Proposition 21

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