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January 26, 2023
STATEMENT: Landlords Celebrate Biden’s Weak ‘Renter Protection’ Plan
Watered-down White House tenant protection measures are a victory for big real estate and private equity lobbyists.

January 23, 2023
The White House Must Heed Tenants, Not Corporate Profiteers, To Enact New Tenant Protection Measures
The White House should not succumb to the real estate industry’s cynical lobbying efforts to block new federal tenant protections. These same developers and corporate landlords fueled the rental housing crisis in the first place by spiking rents and exploiting families, and now they are looking to defend their ill-gotten gains.

January 19, 2023
Corporate Hypocrites Celebrate MLK Day While Suing To Protect Discrimination
Big banks publicly tout a “great leader’s legacy” while quietly fighting against what he stood for.

December 19, 2022
Vishal Shankar Andrea Beaty Kalimah Muhammad
Consumer ProtectionDepartment of JusticeExecutive BranchFTCHousingTreasury Department
Biden Can Protect Millions Of Vulnerable Tenants With The Stroke Of A Pen
Housing experts have drafted an executive order to protect tenants and stop rent-gouging. All Biden has to do is sign it.

November 04, 2022
BankingCongressional OversightConsumer ProtectionExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationIndependent Agencies
Corporate Scammers Aren't Independent Voices
White collar crooks are behind the campaign to kill the CFPB, but don’t expect the mainstream media to tell you that.

October 24, 2022 | The American Prospect
The Unlikely Origins of the Chamber-Chopra War
Big business could soon get their chance to kill the CFPB for good, thanks in part to former Obama aide William Daley.

October 21, 2022
Big Real Estate's Hackery On Housing
The news media keeps citing industry PR flacks, not tenants, as experts on the housing crisis.

October 12, 2022
Tenant Organizers Call On Biden To Tackle Rent Inflation
The grassroots Homes Guarantee campaign has an executive branch playbook to protect tenants, but will the Biden administration acquiesce?

October 03, 2022 | The American Prospect
Pat Toomey Blockades Biden’s Housing Nominees Amid Historic Rent Hikes
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is lacking vital staff during a crisis of housing affordability.

September 13, 2022
New RDP White Paper: Who’s Afraid of Rohit Chopra?
Corporate criminals are terrified of being held accountable by a true public servant, a new Revolving Door Project report reveals.

August 05, 2022
Changes To DeJoy’s Fleet Plan Are Welcome, But Not Enough
USPS’ next-gen vehicles should be 100% electric and union-made. And DeJoy should be out the door.

June 14, 2022
Gordon, Thompson Confirmations Spotlight Urgent Need To Fill HUD Vacancies
Two top Biden housing nominees have been confirmed after months of delays, but five more HUD vacancies still remain unfilled.

May 18, 2022
Will The New Postal Board Fire Louis DeJoy?
Probably not, thanks in part to some of Biden’s own board nominees.

April 27, 2022
Biden’s USPS Nominees Seem Fine With Letting DeJoy Wreck The Post Office
Dan Tangherlini and Trump alum Derek Kan are unlikely to oust DeJoy if confirmed to the Postal Board.

April 07, 2022
How Biden’s HUD Can Tackle The Housing Crisis
Even without Congress, advocates say there’s a lot that HUD can do to protect tenants and promote affordable housing.