Brian Callaci

2 months ago | capitolweekly.net | Brian Callaci

Opinion by BRIAN CALLACI posted 03.28.2025 OPINION – April 1 marks the first anniversary of a historic victory for California’s fast-food workers, the establishment of a $20/hr minimum wage for the industry.

Mar 3, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Andrew Elrod |Ned Resnikoff |Brian Callaci |Sandeep Vaheesan

Tenants on the March: An Interview With Cea Weaver “Organizing tenants has the potential to shape the political landscape for decades to come.” ▪ Winter 2025 In many parts of the country, rising rents have hit a political limit, as politicians, unions, and community organizations increasingly recognize the centrality of housing to the cost-of-living crisis.

Jan 13, 2025 | dissentmagazine.org | Ned Resnikoff |Brian Callaci |Sandeep Vaheesan |Michael Brown

Supply and the Housing Crisis: A Debate How do we achieve housing for all? , and ▪ Winter 2025 After decades of relative stagnation, American housing policy is now several years into a period of radical change and experimentation. In California, where I am policy director for the state-level organization California YIMBY (Yes in My Backyard), city planners will often gripe (with, I have to admit, some justification) that state housing law is changing too quickly for them to keep up.

Jan 9, 2025 | openmarketsinstitute.org | Brian Callaci

Washington, DC – In response the Department of Justice and state co-plaintiffs filing an amended complaint in its lawsuit against real estate software provider RealPage for orchestrating a price-fixing cartel via algorithm, Open Markets Institute Chief Economist Brian Callaci issued the following statement: “Yesterday, the Department of Justice took a major step towards protecting renters from price-gouging by landlords using RealPage to jointly set rents by amending its complaint to bring...

Dec 3, 2024 | ajc.com | Brian Callaci

Inflation brought Donald Trump back to the White House, or at least aided his reelection chances. In the United States, consumer price inflation was, in part, rent inflation. Smart rent control laws could have kept growth in housing costs in check and curbed overall inflation. Corporate power is an important contributor to exploding rents. In Atlanta and many other cities across the country, software firm RealPage operates as a cartel manager for property managers and owners.