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Posts Tagged ‘landlords’

Landlords, renters weigh in as rent control exemption moratorium reaches expiration

By Katey Rusch | September 11, 2018 | 1
Carolyn Pulvino looks over documents her landlord filed to exempt her unit from rent control using the "substantial rehabilitation rule."

Oakland City Council has just six weeks to act before a controversial rent control exemption goes back into effect after a temporary moratorium.

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Oakland housing program aims to bring back landlords, open more Section 8 units

By Ali DeFazio | September 10, 2018 | 1
Johnny Burks rents five of his eight units to Section 8 tenants. He lists streamlined inspections as a major benefit of the OHA program.

Over 1,000 landlords left one of Oakland’s largest affordable housing providers. See what a new program has done to try to fix it.

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Nuisance Eviction Ordinance changes regarding sex workers upset advocacy groups

By Alyssa Jeong Perry | December 3, 2014
Nuisance Eviction Ordinance break-out meeting with sex worker advocates and concerned Oakland residents with Deputy City Attorney, Richard Illgen on November 5.

Sex worker advocacy groups in the Bay Area have taken to social media and traditional media methods to express their outrage over Oakland’s recent updates to an existing “nuisance eviction ordinance” for housing. Advocates believe that the newest addition will allow landlords to unfairly evict those who are voluntarily working as sex workers in commercial…

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