Posts Tagged ‘tenants’
Oakland grapples with tenant protections and pitfalls
Housing advocates in Oakland are warning that the current tenant protections enacted and expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic contain loopholes that leave renters vulnerable to evictions and even lawsuits. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors issued a temporary eviction ban to protect residents from being evicted in March. It covered renters, homeowners and those living…
Read MoreOakland housing program aims to bring back landlords, open more Section 8 units
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.
Read MoreWorkshop provides resources for tenants facing displacement after Ghost Ship fire
A Safe Spaces workshop, organized by the Intersection for the Arts and the San Francisco Bay Area Urban Planning and Research Association, was held in Oakland to discuss Ghost Ship’s aftermath.
Read MoreNuisance Eviction Ordinance changes regarding sex workers upset advocacy groups
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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