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The Rent Is Too Damn High: A Guide On What Not To Do When The Rent Is Just Too Damn High

Posted on April 5, 2018November 12, 2025 by Curtis Wang

If you don’t know who Jimmy McMillan is, you’re missing out. McMillan is the founder and currently one of three members of The Rent Is Too Damn High Party, where he ran as a gubernatorial candidate in New York in 2010. At the gubernatorial debate that year, McMillan was then quoted on live television shouting, […]

Zucchini-gate or Bust: Berkeley’s Battle for Affordable Housing

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Molly Kraus

Standing at the podium in front of the mayor and eight City Councilmembers, cameras zooming in, lights blurring, voices fading to a dull murmur in the background, one citizen was brave enough to brandish an anti-housing weapon no one had ever thought to wield: a zucchini. At the Berkeley City Council meeting on the night […]

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