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Haney said the intention is to bar property owners from asking about pets on applications, prohibit additional monthly fees for pet owners — or “pet rent” — and limit pet deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, which is sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States, is aimed at solving a big problem Haney said he sees in the rental world: an overabundance of tenants with pets and a shortage of landlords willing to accept them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Asm. Matt Haney (D-San Francisco)\"]‘A two-tiered system that punishes people for having pets, or treats them differently, or has a greater burden on them just for that fact should not be allowed in the law.’[/pullquote]“A two-tiered system that punishes people for having pets, or treats them differently, or has a greater burden on them just for that fact should not be allowed in the law,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s staff analyzed Zillow apartment listings and found that 20% of San Francisco apartments allowed cats and dogs of all sizes, while 18% of those in Sacramento and 26% in Los Angeles did. Survey research finds that \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanpetproducts.org/news/press-release/latest-pet-ownership-and-spending-data-from-appa-reveals-continued-strength-of-national-pet-industry-in-the-face-of-economic-uncertainty#:~:text=Key%20findings%20from%20the%202023,Gen%20X%20and%20Baby%20Boomers).\">two in three households\u003c/a> own pets nationwide, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.petsandhousing.org/rental-housing-operators/\">72% of renters report\u003c/a> that pet-friendly housing is hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners, however, are already expressing concerns about the proposal. Krista Gulbransen, executive director of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said her opposition comes down to risk: Pets have the potential to damage property, she said, and limiting owners’ discretion to take on that added risk while stripping them of the pet deposit safeguard puts them in a terrible position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest concern is just not being able to make that determination of risk and make a decision based on that,” Gulbransen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976101\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merika Goolsby with her cat Josie in her home in Oakland on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haney said exceptions would be made for landlords with a reasonable rationale for excluding pets from their properties, such as health and nuisance-related allowances, as long as owners can provide written documentation to a judge or rent board if a tenant contests the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Landlords] can’t just say, ‘No pets allowed,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be a welcome change for Oakland renter and tenant advocate Merika Goolsby, who struggled to find property owners who’d accept her with three small dogs. Goolsby is an alternate member of the Oakland Rent Board and sits on the state board of the tenant advocacy organization Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jenny Berg, California director, Humane Society of the United States\"]‘One of the reasons that people relinquish their pets is because they can’t find affordable housing or housing at all that can accommodate their pets.’[/pullquote]“There were very few places that were pet friendly, and those that were pet friendly wanted pet rent, plus a pet deposit, plus only one pet allowed,” she said. “At one point, I thought I was going to be living in my car with my pets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goolsby went as far as creating resumes for her small dogs, listing their behavior classes and vaccinations in an effort to win over landlords. When she finally found one who’d accept her, she had to put down an additional $500 pet deposit and pay $120 a month in pet rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rent was already high,” she said, “and the pet rent definitely didn’t help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goolsby now has four dogs, seven cats, a fish and a bird. But Haney said his legislation would likely limit the number of pets landlords must accept and allow landlords to require pet liability insurance. Details on how many pets would be covered under the bill are still being worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see too often is just these blanket prohibitions of pets with no good reason for it, with no required justification for it and no protection of pet owners, who represent the majority of California’s renters, to be able to access housing just like anyone else,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign hangs in Merika Goolsby’s home in Oakland on Feb. 15, 2024 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenny Berg, California director for the Humane Society of the United States, said added fees and outright bans contribute to an overcrowding crisis at animal shelters in California and nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons that people relinquish their pets is because they can’t find affordable housing or housing at all that can accommodate their pets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gulbransen was relieved to hear the law only applies to common household pets — she heard an anecdote about a tenant who tried to pass off a tiger as a large cat — but is otherwise dismayed by the possibility of more regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said property owners are reeling from the stack of new local and state laws approved in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you put them all into a package, it’s so rife with possibilities for errors on the part of the landlord,” Gulbransen said. “That makes people think twice about renting out that empty unit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she said the state already has laws in place to protect renters with disabilities or mental health issues who rely on emotional support or service animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976104\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of Merika Goolsby’s cats (from right), Fred 2, Pantha and Trinity, in her home in Oakland on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Julia Howard-Gibbon, supervising attorney at Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, sees room for improvement. Many renters with assistance animals aren’t aware of their right to request exceptions to policies prohibiting pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Or sometimes they do know, but the landlord really pushes back on that,” she said, noting that property owners sometimes request unreasonable documentation or otherwise make the process unnecessarily onerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oftentimes, Howard-Gibbon said landlords simply reject assistance animals outright. \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/0bd62b1a001/4b7708f7-bcb2-43c4-9c67-fa8a35d05c96.pdf\">A 2021 investigation (PDF)\u003c/a> by Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California found that 55% of properties with “no pets” policies they surveyed were unwilling to grant reasonable accommodations for people who need assistance animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s proposal could fix that, Howard-Gibbon said. “It would remove all of these barriers that they face in getting these reasonable accommodations, even though they currently have a right under the current law to access them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101895171,forum_2010101894032,news_11970993\"]She said not having to disclose pet ownership up front, as Haney’s bill proposes, could prevent landlords from using other pretexts to deny pet owners, including those with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a renter to be considered first and a decision made about whether they meet the requirements for an apartment,” Haney said. “And then, after that fact, they disclose that they have a pet. And only if there’s a reasonable rationale to deny them, that would be allowed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s proposed legislation builds on other efforts in California to open apartments to pet owners and follows other states that have taken similar steps. In 2022, the Humane Society successfully \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB971/id/2595934\">passed a bill\u003c/a> in California requiring residents to be allowed to own pets if they live in certain types of affordable housing developments built after January 2023. And \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB23-1068\">Colorado last year\u003c/a> capped pet deposits at $300 and pet rent at $35 or 1.5% of the tenant’s monthly rent, whichever is greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney chairs the Legislature’s Renters’ Caucus, and the proposal is the latest in a series of housing-focused measures he’s proposed. Last year, the governor signed legislation he authored that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB12\">caps security deposits\u003c/a> to one month’s rent. His proposed pet bill clarifies that pet deposits are included in that cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to solve our housing crisis if we continue to allow for no protections for pet owners who represent the majority of our tenants,” he said. “This is simply about access to housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he wants to work with stakeholders to shape the legislation. “We’re open to having a dialog with landlords, of course, about everything in the bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Supporters say the law would remove barriers that contribute to the housing crisis, but property owners are balking at the plan.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708451898,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1468},"headData":{"title":"California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets | KQED","description":"Supporters say the law would remove barriers that contribute to the housing crisis, but property owners are balking at the plan.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Bill Would Require Landlords to Accept Pets","datePublished":"2024-02-20T12:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-20T17:58:18.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11976208/california-bill-would-require-landlords-to-accept-pets","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A San Francisco lawmaker introduced what’s believed to be first-in-the-nation legislation this month that would require California landlords to accept pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2216\">AB 2216\u003c/a> by Democratic Assemblymember Matt Haney, is currently a spot bill with details to be fleshed out in the coming weeks and months. Haney said the intention is to bar property owners from asking about pets on applications, prohibit additional monthly fees for pet owners — or “pet rent” — and limit pet deposits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, which is sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States, is aimed at solving a big problem Haney said he sees in the rental world: an overabundance of tenants with pets and a shortage of landlords willing to accept them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘A two-tiered system that punishes people for having pets, or treats them differently, or has a greater burden on them just for that fact should not be allowed in the law.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Asm. Matt Haney (D-San Francisco)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“A two-tiered system that punishes people for having pets, or treats them differently, or has a greater burden on them just for that fact should not be allowed in the law,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s staff analyzed Zillow apartment listings and found that 20% of San Francisco apartments allowed cats and dogs of all sizes, while 18% of those in Sacramento and 26% in Los Angeles did. Survey research finds that \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanpetproducts.org/news/press-release/latest-pet-ownership-and-spending-data-from-appa-reveals-continued-strength-of-national-pet-industry-in-the-face-of-economic-uncertainty#:~:text=Key%20findings%20from%20the%202023,Gen%20X%20and%20Baby%20Boomers).\">two in three households\u003c/a> own pets nationwide, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.petsandhousing.org/rental-housing-operators/\">72% of renters report\u003c/a> that pet-friendly housing is hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property owners, however, are already expressing concerns about the proposal. Krista Gulbransen, executive director of the Berkeley Property Owners Association, said her opposition comes down to risk: Pets have the potential to damage property, she said, and limiting owners’ discretion to take on that added risk while stripping them of the pet deposit safeguard puts them in a terrible position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest concern is just not being able to make that determination of risk and make a decision based on that,” Gulbransen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976101\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976101\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Merika Goolsby with her cat Josie in her home in Oakland on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haney said exceptions would be made for landlords with a reasonable rationale for excluding pets from their properties, such as health and nuisance-related allowances, as long as owners can provide written documentation to a judge or rent board if a tenant contests the policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Landlords] can’t just say, ‘No pets allowed,’” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be a welcome change for Oakland renter and tenant advocate Merika Goolsby, who struggled to find property owners who’d accept her with three small dogs. Goolsby is an alternate member of the Oakland Rent Board and sits on the state board of the tenant advocacy organization Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘One of the reasons that people relinquish their pets is because they can’t find affordable housing or housing at all that can accommodate their pets.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Jenny Berg, California director, Humane Society of the United States","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There were very few places that were pet friendly, and those that were pet friendly wanted pet rent, plus a pet deposit, plus only one pet allowed,” she said. “At one point, I thought I was going to be living in my car with my pets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goolsby went as far as creating resumes for her small dogs, listing their behavior classes and vaccinations in an effort to win over landlords. When she finally found one who’d accept her, she had to put down an additional $500 pet deposit and pay $120 a month in pet rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rent was already high,” she said, “and the pet rent definitely didn’t help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goolsby now has four dogs, seven cats, a fish and a bird. But Haney said his legislation would likely limit the number of pets landlords must accept and allow landlords to require pet liability insurance. Details on how many pets would be covered under the bill are still being worked out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see too often is just these blanket prohibitions of pets with no good reason for it, with no required justification for it and no protection of pet owners, who represent the majority of California’s renters, to be able to access housing just like anyone else,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976102\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976102\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign hangs in Merika Goolsby’s home in Oakland on Feb. 15, 2024 \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jenny Berg, California director for the Humane Society of the United States, said added fees and outright bans contribute to an overcrowding crisis at animal shelters in California and nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the reasons that people relinquish their pets is because they can’t find affordable housing or housing at all that can accommodate their pets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gulbransen was relieved to hear the law only applies to common household pets — she heard an anecdote about a tenant who tried to pass off a tiger as a large cat — but is otherwise dismayed by the possibility of more regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said property owners are reeling from the stack of new local and state laws approved in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you put them all into a package, it’s so rife with possibilities for errors on the part of the landlord,” Gulbransen said. “That makes people think twice about renting out that empty unit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, she said the state already has laws in place to protect renters with disabilities or mental health issues who rely on emotional support or service animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976104\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976104\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-RENTER-PET-LEG-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three of Merika Goolsby’s cats (from right), Fred 2, Pantha and Trinity, in her home in Oakland on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But Julia Howard-Gibbon, supervising attorney at Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California, sees room for improvement. Many renters with assistance animals aren’t aware of their right to request exceptions to policies prohibiting pets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Or sometimes they do know, but the landlord really pushes back on that,” she said, noting that property owners sometimes request unreasonable documentation or otherwise make the process unnecessarily onerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oftentimes, Howard-Gibbon said landlords simply reject assistance animals outright. \u003ca href=\"https://files.constantcontact.com/0bd62b1a001/4b7708f7-bcb2-43c4-9c67-fa8a35d05c96.pdf\">A 2021 investigation (PDF)\u003c/a> by Fair Housing Advocates of Northern California found that 55% of properties with “no pets” policies they surveyed were unwilling to grant reasonable accommodations for people who need assistance animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s proposal could fix that, Howard-Gibbon said. “It would remove all of these barriers that they face in getting these reasonable accommodations, even though they currently have a right under the current law to access them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"forum_2010101895171,forum_2010101894032,news_11970993"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She said not having to disclose pet ownership up front, as Haney’s bill proposes, could prevent landlords from using other pretexts to deny pet owners, including those with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a renter to be considered first and a decision made about whether they meet the requirements for an apartment,” Haney said. “And then, after that fact, they disclose that they have a pet. And only if there’s a reasonable rationale to deny them, that would be allowed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney’s proposed legislation builds on other efforts in California to open apartments to pet owners and follows other states that have taken similar steps. In 2022, the Humane Society successfully \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB971/id/2595934\">passed a bill\u003c/a> in California requiring residents to be allowed to own pets if they live in certain types of affordable housing developments built after January 2023. And \u003ca href=\"https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB23-1068\">Colorado last year\u003c/a> capped pet deposits at $300 and pet rent at $35 or 1.5% of the tenant’s monthly rent, whichever is greater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney chairs the Legislature’s Renters’ Caucus, and the proposal is the latest in a series of housing-focused measures he’s proposed. Last year, the governor signed legislation he authored that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB12\">caps security deposits\u003c/a> to one month’s rent. His proposed pet bill clarifies that pet deposits are included in that cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to solve our housing crisis if we continue to allow for no protections for pet owners who represent the majority of our tenants,” he said. “This is simply about access to housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said he wants to work with stakeholders to shape the legislation. “We’re open to having a dialog with landlords, of course, about everything in the bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976208/california-bill-would-require-landlords-to-accept-pets","authors":["11276"],"categories":["news_31795","news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_1775","news_28957","news_6244","news_29083"],"featImg":"news_11976206","label":"news"},"news_11960237":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11960237","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11960237","score":null,"sort":[1694097130000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"mobile-home-tenants-in-petulama-fight-back-against-potential-closure","title":"Petaluma Mobile Home Residents Organize in Fight Against Park Closure","publishDate":1694097130,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Petaluma Mobile Home Residents Organize in Fight Against Park Closure | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Brown has called Littlewoods Mobile Villa home for 27 years. His favorite parts about the Great Lakes single-wide mobile home are that it was designed to last, made of durable materials like steel – and that he owns it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what Brown and the other residents at Littlewoods don’t own is the land underneath their homes. Tenants pay to rent space in the 78-unit park. For Brown, that’s about $600 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Margaret DeMatteo, housing policy attorney, Legal Aid of Sonoma County\"]‘When you have a corporation running a park, their number one interest is profit, and that’s going to cause problems for the residents.’[/pullquote]Affordability has kept many tenants of Littlewoods feeling secure. However, after Brown received a potential closure letter from the park’s owners in July, a month after Petaluma’s city council began discussing whether to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/petalumas-mobile-home-reform-fight-is-about-a-lot-more-than-rent-control/\">rent control\u003c/a>, that sense of stability was shaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to my room, I sat down, I read [the letter] and I read it again. I was just blown away,” said Brown. “I read it a third time. My mind wasn’t wrapping around it. In that moment, I just felt broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter specifically mentioned that property owners are unsure if they can continue running the park with measures taken by local and state governments. Littlewoods Villa is owned by the Ubaldi Family, which also owns Carriage Court in Santa Rosa. The park is managed by Harmony Communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is a former delivery truck driver who spent most of his life transporting grapes from Sonoma County wineries, until a bad back injury a few years ago. Now he’s on disability and relies on a fixed income. The rent at the park has allowed him to stay at Littlewoods Villa, in the two-bedroom, metallic mobile home he shares with his roommate Donna Dillard and their two little dogs, Sergei and Becky Woo Woo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap stands in front of a mobile home looking into the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Brown poses for a portrait in front of his mobile home at Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma, Sonoma County, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Brown has lived at Littlewoods for 27 years and along with many others is faced with eviction after the management company threatened to shut the park down due to Petaluma’s new rent stabilization rules. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants of Littlewoods Villa in Petaluma remain in limbo. The fate of the place they call home has been put in jeopardy by the potential closure notice, a move they say is retaliatory after Petaluma \u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/mobilehomes/\">adopted stronger rent control laws surrounding mobile home parks\u003c/a> on July 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and other park residents are now worried that if the owners decide to close Littlewoods Villa, they could be left homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of potentially losing their housing, residents decided to take action and began organizing under the name Neighbors United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about how we’re going to get the word out into the community, how we’re going to continue to organize our get-togethers, our meetings, and what actions we’re going to take,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The last beacon of affordable home ownership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mobile home parks are often the last affordable housing options for home ownership, especially for tenants who are older, lower-income or live on a fixed income, like social security or disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of housing, especially in an increasingly expensive Bay Area, has trickled down to mobile home communities. In 2018, the average home price in Petaluma was a little under $700,000. This year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/city/14699/CA/Petaluma/housing-market#trends\">median home price\u003c/a> is $935,000. Meanwhile, corporate owners have eyed mobile home parks as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/mobile-home-park-ownership-costs.html\">lucrative investments\u003c/a>, driving up rents for tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Adults and children are seen on a street running between rows of mobile homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents walk through the streets of Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you have a corporation running a park, their number one interest is profit, and that’s going to cause problems for the residents,” said Margaret DeMatteo, a housing policy attorney for Legal Aid of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has concerns about the national trend of corporation management companies buying mobile home parks to increase profit. DeMatteo pushed for expanding tenant protections to include mobile park homes by advocating for tenants at city council, and participating in tenant rights workshops to help educate residents on their protections under state and local law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/sites/mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/files/2023_mrl_1479-s_5.4.23_updated_pdf_proof.pdf\">California’s 2023 Mobile Home Residency Law (PDF)\u003c/a>, rent control regulations are left up to each city to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMatteo said the new rent control rules are similar to ones adopted in nearby Santa Rosa, Windsor, and Rohnert Park, but Petaluma was the first place she saw owners threaten to close their parks in response. Since then, owners of parks in Petaluma and Cloverdale have taken similar actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a way to strong-arm homeowners into paying a rent increase of up to 150%,” Dematteo said. “If you want us to stay open, you have to voluntarily pay more space rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents fight for their park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The news of potential closure disrupted what would have been a normal summer of barbeques at Haley Gonzalez’s grandparents’ mobile home. The 11-year-old attends Miwok Valley Elementary, which conveniently shares a chain link fence with the park. Her entire family lives at Littlewoods and relocation for a mobile home is expensive. It can cost \u003ca href=\"https://www.moving.com/tips/moving-mobile-home-expect-pay/#:~:text=To%20move%20a%20single%2Dwide,will%20cost%20%244%2C000%2D%2410%2C000.\">anywhere from $3,000 to $14,000\u003c/a> depending on the mobile home’s size and the destination distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her mother Claudia Gonzalez have been attending tenant meetings since they got the notice. Usually around 80 people show up, sometimes over 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to fight for my park,” said Haley. “My friends and family live here, and I just want to be with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Contreras has also lived at the park his whole life and after graduating from Sonoma State earlier this year, he began teaching band class for fifth and sixth graders at Miwok Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947567,news_11927278,news_11945257\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Contreras has also been a key leader in organizing tenants. After an initial meeting with park management, he and a few others realized they were stronger together. They reached out to a local advocacy group, North Bay Organizing Project, and started attending city council meetings. During public testimony, they shared their experiences and met other tenants in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all coming together collectively and sharing our passion, and spreading positivity, but it is a stressful time to be in for everyone,” Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras is also bilingual, and has made it a point to advocate for the monolingual Spanish speakers in Littlewoods, who make up around 80% of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting to negotiate potential rent increases as a way to keep the park operational, Contreras said the management team neglected to bring a translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Myself and one of my peers who have been stepping up to lead this asked if we could interpret, and they were defensive about it. But ultimately they let us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/documents/final-chapter-6-50-mobilehome-park-space-rent-stabilization-program/\">The ordinance\u003c/a>, which went into effect on Aug.17, prevents property owners from increasing rent by more than 4% annually, or 70% of the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Karen Nau, whose district includes the Littlewoods park, was part of the unanimous vote to amend the rent ordinance. But Nau also recognized the potential harm for property owners who say they’re unable to raise rents to meet inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listening to park owners, I understand. The management company said that Petaluma raised their water rates,” said Nau. “That’s because of the cost of living, and you can use less water, but you can’t raise the rent of the current residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nau said that allowing property managers to increase rent for new residents could be a happy medium, but in order to do that, the ordinance would need to be amended by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Littlewoods Villa owner Nick Ubaldi explained why the rent control limits affect his family’s business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Considering basic economic principles, if revenue is capped at 70% while costs increase by 100% or more, it becomes unsustainable for a business to continue operating long-term. The changes that have been made to the ordinance do not provide any safety valve for operators. We would rather voluntarily go out of business now rather than be forced into a bankruptcy down the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Neighbors united are stronger together\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 29, tenants of Littlewoods Villa gathered to speak out against the possible closure. They were joined by residents of neighboring mobile home parks, who showed up with their families in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its most recent letter to residents, the management company said that in order to close the park, the owners would have to submit a relocation impact report to the city, and would be sending a representative to interview tenants at Littlewoods Villa on Sept. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing blue scrubs speaks into a microphone in front of a crowd of people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liliana Muñoz speaks at a press conference at Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Muñoz and her children reside at the mobile home park, and are being threatened with eviction by management due to Petaluma’s new rent stabilization rules. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the residents who shared their stories was Liliana Muñoz. She grew emotional, choking back tears, as she imagined where her family would go, if they were forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My duty as a single mother is to give my children a home. Without my home I would not be doing my duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure goes forward, Muñoz would have to sell her car to afford relocation costs. She also wouldn’t know what to do without her neighbor, who provides free child care for her two children while she’s at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last night, I came home from work at around 9 p.m., and [my neighbor] was waiting for me with a hot bowl of chicken soup,” Muñoz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Christopher Brown also shared his concern for Littlewoods with the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t sleep at night. I worry about my neighbors, their children, and the elderly.” Brown said. “The Petaluma community does not need more homeless on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>Sept. 12: A previous version of this story indicated that Harmony Communities was the owner of Littlewoods Villa. The story has been updated to reflect that Harmony manages the park’s operations. The story now includes a response from park owner Nick Ubaldi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tenants at Petaluma’s Littlewoods Mobile Villa are fighting against a potential closure notice, organizing with the help of advocates and support from other mobile home parks in the area.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697233215,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":44,"wordCount":1820},"headData":{"title":"Petaluma Mobile Home Residents Organize in Fight Against Park Closure | KQED","description":"Tenants at Petaluma’s Littlewoods Mobile Villa are fighting against a potential closure notice, organizing with the help of advocates and support from other mobile home parks in the area.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Petaluma Mobile Home Residents Organize in Fight Against Park Closure","datePublished":"2023-09-07T14:32:10.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-13T21:40:15.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/942ae00a-2165-489e-855d-b09901107c44/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11960237/mobile-home-tenants-in-petulama-fight-back-against-potential-closure","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#correction\">This story contains a correction.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Brown has called Littlewoods Mobile Villa home for 27 years. His favorite parts about the Great Lakes single-wide mobile home are that it was designed to last, made of durable materials like steel – and that he owns it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what Brown and the other residents at Littlewoods don’t own is the land underneath their homes. Tenants pay to rent space in the 78-unit park. For Brown, that’s about $600 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When you have a corporation running a park, their number one interest is profit, and that’s going to cause problems for the residents.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Margaret DeMatteo, housing policy attorney, Legal Aid of Sonoma County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Affordability has kept many tenants of Littlewoods feeling secure. However, after Brown received a potential closure letter from the park’s owners in July, a month after Petaluma’s city council began discussing whether to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/petalumas-mobile-home-reform-fight-is-about-a-lot-more-than-rent-control/\">rent control\u003c/a>, that sense of stability was shaken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I went to my room, I sat down, I read [the letter] and I read it again. I was just blown away,” said Brown. “I read it a third time. My mind wasn’t wrapping around it. In that moment, I just felt broken.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter specifically mentioned that property owners are unsure if they can continue running the park with measures taken by local and state governments. Littlewoods Villa is owned by the Ubaldi Family, which also owns Carriage Court in Santa Rosa. The park is managed by Harmony Communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown is a former delivery truck driver who spent most of his life transporting grapes from Sonoma County wineries, until a bad back injury a few years ago. Now he’s on disability and relies on a fixed income. The rent at the park has allowed him to stay at Littlewoods Villa, in the two-bedroom, metallic mobile home he shares with his roommate Donna Dillard and their two little dogs, Sergei and Becky Woo Woo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959849\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959849\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap stands in front of a mobile home looking into the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68497_20230829-Littlewoods-25-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Brown poses for a portrait in front of his mobile home at Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma, Sonoma County, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Brown has lived at Littlewoods for 27 years and along with many others is faced with eviction after the management company threatened to shut the park down due to Petaluma’s new rent stabilization rules. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants of Littlewoods Villa in Petaluma remain in limbo. The fate of the place they call home has been put in jeopardy by the potential closure notice, a move they say is retaliatory after Petaluma \u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/mobilehomes/\">adopted stronger rent control laws surrounding mobile home parks\u003c/a> on July 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown and other park residents are now worried that if the owners decide to close Littlewoods Villa, they could be left homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In light of potentially losing their housing, residents decided to take action and began organizing under the name Neighbors United.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We talk about how we’re going to get the word out into the community, how we’re going to continue to organize our get-togethers, our meetings, and what actions we’re going to take,” said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The last beacon of affordable home ownership\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mobile home parks are often the last affordable housing options for home ownership, especially for tenants who are older, lower-income or live on a fixed income, like social security or disability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of housing, especially in an increasingly expensive Bay Area, has trickled down to mobile home communities. In 2018, the average home price in Petaluma was a little under $700,000. This year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.redfin.com/city/14699/CA/Petaluma/housing-market#trends\">median home price\u003c/a> is $935,000. Meanwhile, corporate owners have eyed mobile home parks as \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/mobile-home-park-ownership-costs.html\">lucrative investments\u003c/a>, driving up rents for tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959843\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959843\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Adults and children are seen on a street running between rows of mobile homes.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68511_20230829-Littlewoods-42-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Residents walk through the streets of Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When you have a corporation running a park, their number one interest is profit, and that’s going to cause problems for the residents,” said Margaret DeMatteo, a housing policy attorney for Legal Aid of Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She has concerns about the national trend of corporation management companies buying mobile home parks to increase profit. DeMatteo pushed for expanding tenant protections to include mobile park homes by advocating for tenants at city council, and participating in tenant rights workshops to help educate residents on their protections under state and local law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/sites/mobilehomes.senate.ca.gov/files/2023_mrl_1479-s_5.4.23_updated_pdf_proof.pdf\">California’s 2023 Mobile Home Residency Law (PDF)\u003c/a>, rent control regulations are left up to each city to decide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMatteo said the new rent control rules are similar to ones adopted in nearby Santa Rosa, Windsor, and Rohnert Park, but Petaluma was the first place she saw owners threaten to close their parks in response. Since then, owners of parks in Petaluma and Cloverdale have taken similar actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are a way to strong-arm homeowners into paying a rent increase of up to 150%,” Dematteo said. “If you want us to stay open, you have to voluntarily pay more space rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Residents fight for their park\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The news of potential closure disrupted what would have been a normal summer of barbeques at Haley Gonzalez’s grandparents’ mobile home. The 11-year-old attends Miwok Valley Elementary, which conveniently shares a chain link fence with the park. Her entire family lives at Littlewoods and relocation for a mobile home is expensive. It can cost \u003ca href=\"https://www.moving.com/tips/moving-mobile-home-expect-pay/#:~:text=To%20move%20a%20single%2Dwide,will%20cost%20%244%2C000%2D%2410%2C000.\">anywhere from $3,000 to $14,000\u003c/a> depending on the mobile home’s size and the destination distance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her mother Claudia Gonzalez have been attending tenant meetings since they got the notice. Usually around 80 people show up, sometimes over 100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to fight for my park,” said Haley. “My friends and family live here, and I just want to be with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin Contreras has also lived at the park his whole life and after graduating from Sonoma State earlier this year, he began teaching band class for fifth and sixth graders at Miwok Elementary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11947567,news_11927278,news_11945257","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Contreras has also been a key leader in organizing tenants. After an initial meeting with park management, he and a few others realized they were stronger together. They reached out to a local advocacy group, North Bay Organizing Project, and started attending city council meetings. During public testimony, they shared their experiences and met other tenants in similar situations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all coming together collectively and sharing our passion, and spreading positivity, but it is a stressful time to be in for everyone,” Contreras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras is also bilingual, and has made it a point to advocate for the monolingual Spanish speakers in Littlewoods, who make up around 80% of residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a meeting to negotiate potential rent increases as a way to keep the park operational, Contreras said the management team neglected to bring a translator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Myself and one of my peers who have been stepping up to lead this asked if we could interpret, and they were defensive about it. But ultimately they let us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cityofpetaluma.org/documents/final-chapter-6-50-mobilehome-park-space-rent-stabilization-program/\">The ordinance\u003c/a>, which went into effect on Aug.17, prevents property owners from increasing rent by more than 4% annually, or 70% of the Consumer Price Index, whichever is lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Karen Nau, whose district includes the Littlewoods park, was part of the unanimous vote to amend the rent ordinance. But Nau also recognized the potential harm for property owners who say they’re unable to raise rents to meet inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Listening to park owners, I understand. The management company said that Petaluma raised their water rates,” said Nau. “That’s because of the cost of living, and you can use less water, but you can’t raise the rent of the current residents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nau said that allowing property managers to increase rent for new residents could be a happy medium, but in order to do that, the ordinance would need to be amended by the city council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Littlewoods Villa owner Nick Ubaldi explained why the rent control limits affect his family’s business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Considering basic economic principles, if revenue is capped at 70% while costs increase by 100% or more, it becomes unsustainable for a business to continue operating long-term. The changes that have been made to the ordinance do not provide any safety valve for operators. We would rather voluntarily go out of business now rather than be forced into a bankruptcy down the road.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Neighbors united are stronger together\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 29, tenants of Littlewoods Villa gathered to speak out against the possible closure. They were joined by residents of neighboring mobile home parks, who showed up with their families in solidarity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its most recent letter to residents, the management company said that in order to close the park, the owners would have to submit a relocation impact report to the city, and would be sending a representative to interview tenants at Littlewoods Villa on Sept. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959842\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing blue scrubs speaks into a microphone in front of a crowd of people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS68504_20230829-Littlewoods-32-JY-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liliana Muñoz speaks at a press conference at Littlewoods Mobile Villa in Petaluma, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023. Muñoz and her children reside at the mobile home park, and are being threatened with eviction by management due to Petaluma’s new rent stabilization rules. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the residents who shared their stories was Liliana Muñoz. She grew emotional, choking back tears, as she imagined where her family would go, if they were forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My duty as a single mother is to give my children a home. Without my home I would not be doing my duty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the closure goes forward, Muñoz would have to sell her car to afford relocation costs. She also wouldn’t know what to do without her neighbor, who provides free child care for her two children while she’s at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Last night, I came home from work at around 9 p.m., and [my neighbor] was waiting for me with a hot bowl of chicken soup,” Muñoz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Christopher Brown also shared his concern for Littlewoods with the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t sleep at night. I worry about my neighbors, their children, and the elderly.” Brown said. “The Petaluma community does not need more homeless on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>Sept. 12: A previous version of this story indicated that Harmony Communities was the owner of Littlewoods Villa. The story has been updated to reflect that Harmony manages the park’s operations. The story now includes a response from park owner Nick Ubaldi.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11960237/mobile-home-tenants-in-petulama-fight-back-against-potential-closure","authors":["11880"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_28957","news_33140","news_4652","news_2509"],"featImg":"news_11959844","label":"news"},"news_11955733":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11955733","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11955733","score":null,"sort":[1689431459000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"oaklands-eviction-moratorium-just-ended-whats-next-for-renters-and-landlords","title":"Oakland's Eviction Moratorium Just Ended. What's Next for Renters and Landlords?","publishDate":1689431459,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Oakland’s Eviction Moratorium Just Ended. What’s Next for Renters and Landlords? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After months of debate, Oakland’s eviction moratorium expired on Saturday, July 15. The move comes after Alameda County ended its public health emergency and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947933/alameda-countys-eviction-moratorium-ends-saturday-whats-next-for-renters-and-landlords\">its own eviction moratorium back in April\u003c/a>. Oakland had been one of the last remaining cities in the country with this type of protection for tenants, along with San Francisco and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rest of Alameda County, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/05/24/evictions-cases-are-rising-fast-after-end-of-alameda-county-moratorium/\">evictions spiked after the county’s moratorium was lifted, rising to above pre-pandemic highs\u003c/a>. With the majority of Oakland residents renting their homes, and the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.housinginitiative.org/uploads/1/3/2/9/132946414/hip_oakland_market_study_9-29-20_small.pdf\">having a higher percentage of renters compared to the county as a whole (PDF)\u003c/a>, many advocates fear that this change will lead to an even greater wave of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#impacts\">\u003cstrong>What does the end of Oakland’s eviction moratorium mean for renters?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#evictions\">\u003cstrong>What can Oakland renters be evicted for starting July 15?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#backrent\">\u003cstrong>Do Oakland renters now have to pay back rent?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#advice\">\u003cstrong>Where can Oakland renters find legal advice and resources?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#landlords\">\u003cstrong>What should Oakland landlords know?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Evictions on the horizon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We’re all terrified to see [the moratorium] sunset,” said Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.evictiondefensecenteroakland.org/\">Eviction Defense Center (EDC)\u003c/a>. “We’ve already seen the effects of the Alameda County moratorium sunsetting and the massive amounts of evictions that are being filed. So we can only imagine what’s waiting for us in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Tamiko Omura said, there were less than 4,000 evictions — but she expects that after the moratorium lifts, evictions will now surpass that number in less than three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a renter, this doesn’t necessarily mean you can be immediately evicted, as various tenant protections still remain in place and some were recently added by the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">\u003cstrong>Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/renterhelp\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)\u003c/a>, said her organization is “expecting to see a lot of evictions filed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg’s key message? “We’re working really hard to get the message out that you can’t be evicted for the rent that people may have accrued during the pandemic,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you need to know about Oakland’s eviction moratorium expiring? If you’re an Oakland renter — or a landlord in the city — how will the end of the moratorium affect you? Keep reading for details on who can be evicted in Oakland and what renter protections continue to exist after July 15.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"impacts\">\u003c/a>What does the end of the moratorium mean for renters?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, the Oakland City Council adopted an eviction moratorium in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — which ensured that renters could not be evicted over unpaid rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there were actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/important-covid-19-information\">three renter protections Oakland put into place in 2020\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>All evictions were prohibited — unless they were on health or safety grounds, or under a state law that allows landlords to evict tenants if they’re permanently taking their units off the rental market (e.g., moving themselves or a family member into the unit).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All late fees for nonpayment of rent were prohibited.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All rent increases were prohibited unless they were established inflation adjustments or approved through a petition under \u003ca href=\"https://apps.oaklandca.gov/rappetitions/Petitions.aspx\">Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So, what’s changing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting July 15, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/oakland-eviction-moratorium-phase-out\">landlords will be able to evict for nonpayment of rent moving forward\u003c/a>. Landlords will also be able to once again charge late fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003cstrong>the moratorium on\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>rent increases is not ending on July 15\u003c/strong>. That will remain in place until July 1, 2024, one year away. Until that date, all rent increases will remain prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/oakland-eviction-moratorium-phase-out\">See the details of what will change for Oakland renters and landlords starting July 1 on the city of Oakland’s website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"evictions\">\u003c/a>What can Oakland renters now be evicted for, starting July 15?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting July 15, landlords in Oakland can now evict renters or terminate tenancies for any just cause, including not paying rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because for most tenants rent is due on the first day of the month, this means that most Oakland renters will have to start paying their rent on or after August 1. And if they don’t, their landlord can start eviction proceedings. If you are someone who pays rent on the first of the month, be aware that \u003cstrong>your landlord could technically ask you on July 15 to pay half of your July rent\u003c/strong>.[aside label='More Guides from KQED' tag='audience-news']Oakland landlords can also resume charging their tenants late fees for late rent payments moving forward — but this does not include late payments during the moratorium period. So housing advocates stress that renters should start paying their landlord again as soon as their rent is due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants can also now be evicted for having violated their lease in other ways during the eviction moratorium. To this end, the Oakland City Council did approve a “just cause” ordinance, which says that the landlord must show that the lease violation is based on a reasonable term that the tenant accepted in writing and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/06/07/oakland-city-council-eviction-lease/\">it has to be a violation that causes substantial injury to the landlord\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, city officials told KQED that a landlord cannot proceed with an eviction if the unit in question has not been registered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/rent-registration-in-oakland-information-and-faqs\">the city’s rent registry\u003c/a> — something the city now requires for all rental units covered by rent control or “just cause” protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#advice\">\u003cstrong>Jump to more resources available to renters in Oakland.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"backrent\">\u003c/a>Do Oakland renters have to pay back rent now that the eviction moratorium has expired?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Landlords in Oakland can demand back rent starting July 15, and can take tenants to small claims court. They can also ultimately pursue evictions for the back rent that was missed during the moratorium period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, this development regarding back rent comes with two big caveats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, \u003cstrong>tenants cannot be evicted for any back rent owed between March 9, 2020, and July 14, 2021\u003c/strong>, if they can show that the missed payment was due to financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, \u003cstrong>tenants cannot be evicted for owing less than one month of fair market rent during that period\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you show that your financial hardship or loss \u003cem>was\u003c/em> caused by the pandemic? Alameda County Housing Secure advises that “you should submit \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/ac-eviction-moratorium-guide\">proof of your COVID-related loss of income or increase in expenses to your landlord\u003c/a> in the form of pay stubs, bank statements, a letter from your employer, child care bills or medical bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland is also encouraging \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Info-Sheet_Tenant-Repayment-Negotiation_EN_10.11.22_FINAL.pdf\">tenants and landlords to enter into repayment negotiations (PDF)\u003c/a>. Legally, repayment plans cannot come with late fees and cannot be conditioned on changes to the lease.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Tenants cannot be evicted for rent owed between March 9, 2020, and July 14, 2021, as long as they can prove it was due to a COVID-19 related hardship.[/pullquote]Simon-Weisberg, from ACCE, says that many tenants are being pressured by landlords who say they’ll forgive the debt if the tenant agrees to move out. And while that might sound like a good deal for those who may not have the budget to pay back the debt, she argues it’s more stressful to end up with nowhere to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that people aren’t quite sure what to do with the debt that they owe,” said Simon-Weisberg. “So we really want to encourage folks to hang tight. And I think we’ll be going into a period of trying to really help people figure out what to do about the debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A street in Oakland's Chinatown during the morning. Cars are parked along the street, in front of apartment buildings with shops on the ground level.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Oakland is encouraging tenants who owe back rent to enter into repayment negotiations with their landlords. Legally, repayment plans cannot come with late fees and cannot be conditioned on changes to the lease. \u003ccite>(Nicolo Sertorio/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"advice\">\u003c/a>Resources for Oakland renters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tamiko Omura, from the EDC, said that her group is advising renters “to do the best they can to pay their rent for the month of July and to contact a legal service provider if they get any paperwork as soon as possible.” Often, if you receive an eviction notice or summons, you have to respond within three days or face losing the opportunity to make your case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the debate over the eviction moratorium, Oakland City Council members said \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/housing-resources-erap-emergency-rental-assistance\">the city’s rental assistance program administered $60 million in assistance, but that these funds have not been fully utilized\u003c/a>. However, applications are now closed — though the program is administered through the following local nonprofits, many of which also offer legal assistance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.self-sufficiency.org/\">Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/?lang=es\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebaldc.org/\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.evictiondefensecenteroakland.org/\">Eviction Defense Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://safepassages.org/\">Safe Passages\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has done everything it can to try to get more money. It’s not enough,” said Tamiko Omura. “The state coverage was not enough. The money we have left is not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which other Bay Area cities still have their own eviction moratoriums?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These Bay Area cities still have their own, separate eviction moratoriums, which are ongoing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/local-eviction-protections-non-payment-rent-during-covid-19-extended-through-august-29-2023#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20no%20tenant%20may%20be,19%20Proclamation%20of%20Local%20Emergency.\">\u003cstrong>San Francisco eviction moratorium:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> After the city’s public health emergency ended on June 30, the rental eviction moratorium was extended to August 29, and will expire August 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/rights-responsibilities/covid-19-information-tenants-landlords\">\u003cstrong>Berkeley eviction moratorium:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The city of Berkeley’s eviction moratorium is expiring in stages. Starting May 1, some evictions were allowed for health and safety, owner move-ins or nonpayment of rent where the tenant had not provided documentation establishing a reason for not paying. After September 1, the moratorium will fully expire.[aside postID=\"news_11952870\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg\"]\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/1199/Eviction-Moratorium\">\u003cstrong>San Leandro eviction moratorium:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The eviction moratorium in San Leandro will end July 31. Tenants will have to pay past due rent within 180 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Contra Costa cities of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/4082/COVID-19-Rental-Related-Information?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=44444444-4444-4444-4444-444444444444\">Richmond\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/covid19-policy/#:~:text=Residents%20of%20Alameda%20County%20are,ended%20on%20April%2029%2C%202023.\">El Cerrito\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> have some extra tenant protections related to missed rent during the pandemic — though neither city still has an eviction moratorium in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"landlords\">\u003c/a>What should landlords in Oakland know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Landlords should be aware that if their property is under rent control, they are now required \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/rent-registration-in-oakland-information-and-faqs\">to register their units in the city’s rent registry\u003c/a>. The deadline to register was July 5, 2022. City officials told KQED that if a landlord has not registered a unit, they currently cannot proceed with an eviction for the tenants living in that unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not that we are asking them to register their eviction, even though they are to provide the city with a copy,” said Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program Manager Victor Ramirez. “The registration is not for them to register an eviction lawsuit. It is for them to provide information about the tenancy that they currently have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge landlords are facing is the sheer size of outstanding rent owed throughout the city. When Alameda County’s eviction moratorium expired back in April, Michelle Starratt, housing director for Alameda County, said there was between $125 million and $300 million in outstanding rent owed throughout the county — even with the federal and state assistance that had paid some of the back rent.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michelle Starratt, housing director, Alameda County\"]‘At this point, the best recourse for landlords is to go to small claims court to obtain the back rent owed from those tenants.’[/pullquote]In an Alameda County survey of landlords from fall 2022 and spring 2023, landlords reported that 50% of the rent that was owed was actually owed by tenants who were considered over-income — as in, their income was higher than 80% of the area’s median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, the best recourse for landlords is to go to small claims court to obtain the back rent owed from those tenants,” Starratt said at the time. Alameda County also deployed about $5 million in emergency foreclosure prevention money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Oakland City Council meetings, a number of smaller Oakland landlords spoke out about the financial stress they had been struggling with as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California additionally \u003ca href=\"https://camortgagerelief.org/\">runs a mortgage relief program\u003c/a>, which earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/02/california-mortgage-relief-expansion/\">expanded who qualified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t want landlords to lose their properties, so we’re trying to get some of these resources into the community,” Starratt said. “But nearly $5 million in funding is just a drop in the bucket if we have over $300 million worth of outstanding rent and half of that is for over-income tenants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The over-income tenants need to help us by paying their rent,” said Starratt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Rachel Vasquez, Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Alexander Gonzalez contributed to this reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Oakland's eviction moratorium ended on July 15, 2023 and tenants are now required to pay rent. Tenants who don't pay their rent can now be evicted by their landlord but there are still some protections left.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1689633367,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2337},"headData":{"title":"Oakland's Eviction Moratorium Just Ended. 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The move comes after Alameda County ended its public health emergency and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947933/alameda-countys-eviction-moratorium-ends-saturday-whats-next-for-renters-and-landlords\">its own eviction moratorium back in April\u003c/a>. Oakland had been one of the last remaining cities in the country with this type of protection for tenants, along with San Francisco and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the rest of Alameda County, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/05/24/evictions-cases-are-rising-fast-after-end-of-alameda-county-moratorium/\">evictions spiked after the county’s moratorium was lifted, rising to above pre-pandemic highs\u003c/a>. With the majority of Oakland residents renting their homes, and the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.housinginitiative.org/uploads/1/3/2/9/132946414/hip_oakland_market_study_9-29-20_small.pdf\">having a higher percentage of renters compared to the county as a whole (PDF)\u003c/a>, many advocates fear that this change will lead to an even greater wave of evictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#impacts\">\u003cstrong>What does the end of Oakland’s eviction moratorium mean for renters?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#evictions\">\u003cstrong>What can Oakland renters be evicted for starting July 15?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#backrent\">\u003cstrong>Do Oakland renters now have to pay back rent?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#advice\">\u003cstrong>Where can Oakland renters find legal advice and resources?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#landlords\">\u003cstrong>What should Oakland landlords know?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Evictions on the horizon\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We’re all terrified to see [the moratorium] sunset,” said Anne Tamiko Omura, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.evictiondefensecenteroakland.org/\">Eviction Defense Center (EDC)\u003c/a>. “We’ve already seen the effects of the Alameda County moratorium sunsetting and the massive amounts of evictions that are being filed. So we can only imagine what’s waiting for us in Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Tamiko Omura said, there were less than 4,000 evictions — but she expects that after the moratorium lifts, evictions will now surpass that number in less than three months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’re a renter, this doesn’t necessarily mean you can be immediately evicted, as various tenant protections still remain in place and some were recently added by the Oakland City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#tellus\">\u003cstrong>Tell us: What else do you need information about right now?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acceaction.org/renterhelp\">Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE)\u003c/a>, said her organization is “expecting to see a lot of evictions filed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg’s key message? “We’re working really hard to get the message out that you can’t be evicted for the rent that people may have accrued during the pandemic,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what do you need to know about Oakland’s eviction moratorium expiring? If you’re an Oakland renter — or a landlord in the city — how will the end of the moratorium affect you? Keep reading for details on who can be evicted in Oakland and what renter protections continue to exist after July 15.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"impacts\">\u003c/a>What does the end of the moratorium mean for renters?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, the Oakland City Council adopted an eviction moratorium in response to the COVID-19 pandemic — which ensured that renters could not be evicted over unpaid rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, there were actually \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/important-covid-19-information\">three renter protections Oakland put into place in 2020\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>All evictions were prohibited — unless they were on health or safety grounds, or under a state law that allows landlords to evict tenants if they’re permanently taking their units off the rental market (e.g., moving themselves or a family member into the unit).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All late fees for nonpayment of rent were prohibited.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All rent increases were prohibited unless they were established inflation adjustments or approved through a petition under \u003ca href=\"https://apps.oaklandca.gov/rappetitions/Petitions.aspx\">Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So, what’s changing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting July 15, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/oakland-eviction-moratorium-phase-out\">landlords will be able to evict for nonpayment of rent moving forward\u003c/a>. Landlords will also be able to once again charge late fees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003cstrong>the moratorium on\u003c/strong> \u003cstrong>rent increases is not ending on July 15\u003c/strong>. That will remain in place until July 1, 2024, one year away. Until that date, all rent increases will remain prohibited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/oakland-eviction-moratorium-phase-out\">See the details of what will change for Oakland renters and landlords starting July 1 on the city of Oakland’s website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"evictions\">\u003c/a>What can Oakland renters now be evicted for, starting July 15?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Starting July 15, landlords in Oakland can now evict renters or terminate tenancies for any just cause, including not paying rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because for most tenants rent is due on the first day of the month, this means that most Oakland renters will have to start paying their rent on or after August 1. And if they don’t, their landlord can start eviction proceedings. If you are someone who pays rent on the first of the month, be aware that \u003cstrong>your landlord could technically ask you on July 15 to pay half of your July rent\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Guides from KQED ","tag":"audience-news"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Oakland landlords can also resume charging their tenants late fees for late rent payments moving forward — but this does not include late payments during the moratorium period. So housing advocates stress that renters should start paying their landlord again as soon as their rent is due.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenants can also now be evicted for having violated their lease in other ways during the eviction moratorium. To this end, the Oakland City Council did approve a “just cause” ordinance, which says that the landlord must show that the lease violation is based on a reasonable term that the tenant accepted in writing and \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2023/06/07/oakland-city-council-eviction-lease/\">it has to be a violation that causes substantial injury to the landlord\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, city officials told KQED that a landlord cannot proceed with an eviction if the unit in question has not been registered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/rent-registration-in-oakland-information-and-faqs\">the city’s rent registry\u003c/a> — something the city now requires for all rental units covered by rent control or “just cause” protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#advice\">\u003cstrong>Jump to more resources available to renters in Oakland.\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"backrent\">\u003c/a>Do Oakland renters have to pay back rent now that the eviction moratorium has expired?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Landlords in Oakland can demand back rent starting July 15, and can take tenants to small claims court. They can also ultimately pursue evictions for the back rent that was missed during the moratorium period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, this development regarding back rent comes with two big caveats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, \u003cstrong>tenants cannot be evicted for any back rent owed between March 9, 2020, and July 14, 2021\u003c/strong>, if they can show that the missed payment was due to financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, \u003cstrong>tenants cannot be evicted for owing less than one month of fair market rent during that period\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you show that your financial hardship or loss \u003cem>was\u003c/em> caused by the pandemic? Alameda County Housing Secure advises that “you should submit \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/ac-eviction-moratorium-guide\">proof of your COVID-related loss of income or increase in expenses to your landlord\u003c/a> in the form of pay stubs, bank statements, a letter from your employer, child care bills or medical bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland is also encouraging \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Info-Sheet_Tenant-Repayment-Negotiation_EN_10.11.22_FINAL.pdf\">tenants and landlords to enter into repayment negotiations (PDF)\u003c/a>. Legally, repayment plans cannot come with late fees and cannot be conditioned on changes to the lease.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"Tenants cannot be evicted for rent owed between March 9, 2020, and July 14, 2021, as long as they can prove it was due to a COVID-19 related hardship.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg, from ACCE, says that many tenants are being pressured by landlords who say they’ll forgive the debt if the tenant agrees to move out. And while that might sound like a good deal for those who may not have the budget to pay back the debt, she argues it’s more stressful to end up with nowhere to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that people aren’t quite sure what to do with the debt that they owe,” said Simon-Weisberg. “So we really want to encourage folks to hang tight. And I think we’ll be going into a period of trying to really help people figure out what to do about the debt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955781\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955781\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A street in Oakland's Chinatown during the morning. Cars are parked along the street, in front of apartment buildings with shops on the ground level.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1708\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/GettyImages-861724936-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The city of Oakland is encouraging tenants who owe back rent to enter into repayment negotiations with their landlords. Legally, repayment plans cannot come with late fees and cannot be conditioned on changes to the lease. \u003ccite>(Nicolo Sertorio/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"advice\">\u003c/a>Resources for Oakland renters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Tamiko Omura, from the EDC, said that her group is advising renters “to do the best they can to pay their rent for the month of July and to contact a legal service provider if they get any paperwork as soon as possible.” Often, if you receive an eviction notice or summons, you have to respond within three days or face losing the opportunity to make your case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the debate over the eviction moratorium, Oakland City Council members said \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/housing-resources-erap-emergency-rental-assistance\">the city’s rental assistance program administered $60 million in assistance, but that these funds have not been fully utilized\u003c/a>. However, applications are now closed — though the program is administered through the following local nonprofits, many of which also offer legal assistance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bayareacs.org/\">Bay Area Community Services\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.self-sufficiency.org/\">Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cceb.org/\">Catholic Charities East Bay\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.centrolegal.org/?lang=es\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://ebaldc.org/\">East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.evictiondefensecenteroakland.org/\">Eviction Defense Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://safepassages.org/\">Safe Passages\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“Oakland has done everything it can to try to get more money. It’s not enough,” said Tamiko Omura. “The state coverage was not enough. The money we have left is not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which other Bay Area cities still have their own eviction moratoriums?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>These Bay Area cities still have their own, separate eviction moratoriums, which are ongoing:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/news/local-eviction-protections-non-payment-rent-during-covid-19-extended-through-august-29-2023#:~:text=Specifically%2C%20no%20tenant%20may%20be,19%20Proclamation%20of%20Local%20Emergency.\">\u003cstrong>San Francisco eviction moratorium:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> After the city’s public health emergency ended on June 30, the rental eviction moratorium was extended to August 29, and will expire August 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/rights-responsibilities/covid-19-information-tenants-landlords\">\u003cstrong>Berkeley eviction moratorium:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The city of Berkeley’s eviction moratorium is expiring in stages. Starting May 1, some evictions were allowed for health and safety, owner move-ins or nonpayment of rent where the tenant had not provided documentation establishing a reason for not paying. After September 1, the moratorium will fully expire.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11952870","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/1199/Eviction-Moratorium\">\u003cstrong>San Leandro eviction moratorium:\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> The eviction moratorium in San Leandro will end July 31. Tenants will have to pay past due rent within 180 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, the Contra Costa cities of \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/4082/COVID-19-Rental-Related-Information?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=44444444-4444-4444-4444-444444444444\">Richmond\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> and \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/covid19-policy/#:~:text=Residents%20of%20Alameda%20County%20are,ended%20on%20April%2029%2C%202023.\">El Cerrito\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> have some extra tenant protections related to missed rent during the pandemic — though neither city still has an eviction moratorium in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"landlords\">\u003c/a>What should landlords in Oakland know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Landlords should be aware that if their property is under rent control, they are now required \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/rent-registration-in-oakland-information-and-faqs\">to register their units in the city’s rent registry\u003c/a>. The deadline to register was July 5, 2022. City officials told KQED that if a landlord has not registered a unit, they currently cannot proceed with an eviction for the tenants living in that unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not that we are asking them to register their eviction, even though they are to provide the city with a copy,” said Oakland’s Rent Adjustment Program Manager Victor Ramirez. “The registration is not for them to register an eviction lawsuit. It is for them to provide information about the tenancy that they currently have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another challenge landlords are facing is the sheer size of outstanding rent owed throughout the city. When Alameda County’s eviction moratorium expired back in April, Michelle Starratt, housing director for Alameda County, said there was between $125 million and $300 million in outstanding rent owed throughout the county — even with the federal and state assistance that had paid some of the back rent.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘At this point, the best recourse for landlords is to go to small claims court to obtain the back rent owed from those tenants.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Michelle Starratt, housing director, Alameda County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In an Alameda County survey of landlords from fall 2022 and spring 2023, landlords reported that 50% of the rent that was owed was actually owed by tenants who were considered over-income — as in, their income was higher than 80% of the area’s median income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, the best recourse for landlords is to go to small claims court to obtain the back rent owed from those tenants,” Starratt said at the time. Alameda County also deployed about $5 million in emergency foreclosure prevention money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the Oakland City Council meetings, a number of smaller Oakland landlords spoke out about the financial stress they had been struggling with as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California additionally \u003ca href=\"https://camortgagerelief.org/\">runs a mortgage relief program\u003c/a>, which earlier this year \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2023/02/california-mortgage-relief-expansion/\">expanded who qualified\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t want landlords to lose their properties, so we’re trying to get some of these resources into the community,” Starratt said. “But nearly $5 million in funding is just a drop in the bucket if we have over $300 million worth of outstanding rent and half of that is for over-income tenants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The over-income tenants need to help us by paying their rent,” said Starratt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Rachel Vasquez, Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman and Alexander Gonzalez contributed to this reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11955733/oaklands-eviction-moratorium-just-ended-whats-next-for-renters-and-landlords","authors":["11812","1459"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_28175","news_32707","news_27701","news_18372","news_27626","news_1775","news_26702","news_28957","news_6185","news_643","news_32923","news_32922","news_20967","news_29083","news_27707"],"featImg":"news_11955794","label":"news"},"news_11947933":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11947933","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11947933","score":null,"sort":[1682895644000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"alameda-countys-eviction-moratorium-ends-saturday-whats-next-for-renters-and-landlords","title":"Alameda County's Eviction Moratorium Ended Saturday. What's Next for Renters (and Landlords)?","publishDate":1682895644,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Alameda County’s Eviction Moratorium Ended Saturday. What’s Next for Renters (and Landlords)? | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>At 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, April 29, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/ac-eviction-moratorium-guide\">Alameda County’s eviction moratorium expired\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that starting Sunday, April 30, tens of thousands of Alameda County residents must pay rent for the first time in three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump to: \u003ca href=\"#evictionmoratoriumalameda\">What you need to know if you’re an Alameda County renter\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The protections were established by Alameda County in 2020 as a way to protect renters from the financial fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic. But when \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/covid19-assets/docs/press/press-release-2023.02.28.pdf\">Alameda ended the county’s public health emergency for COVID-19 on Feb. 28 (PDF)\u003c/a>, it also triggered the end of the moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Alameda County housing officials are expecting evictions to spike to above pre-pandemic levels, to some 250–350 evictions per month — as landlords look to recoup back rent and evict tenants if they are unable to pay going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the end of the eviction moratorium in Alameda County. For resources available to tenants and landlords in Alameda County, including free legal services for lower-income tenants and homeowners, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/\">Alameda County Housing Secure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will this eviction moratorium’s expiration affect people in Alameda County?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For their part, property owners say they plan to collect what they’re owed. A \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23791228/tenant-landlord-report-42523-work-session-final-1.pdf\">survey of landlords (PDF)\u003c/a> conducted by the Alameda County Community Development Agency this spring found that 67% of respondents said they would pursue an eviction after the moratorium expired. Fifty-seven percent said they would pursue rent debt through small claims court.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michelle Starratt, housing director, Alameda County\"]‘This was not a rent strike. This was an expectation that at some point you were going to pay your rent.’[/pullquote]“I think we are going to see a lot of displacement, and this is going to affect lower-income community members more than those with higher incomes,” said Michelle Starratt, housing director for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked very closely at what was happening in surrounding communities like Contra Costa and Santa Clara County when their eviction moratoriums ended last fall,” she said. “What we saw was a rapid rise in evictions and displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does Alameda County’s eviction moratorium affect every city in the county?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No: The Alameda County cities of Oakland, Berkeley and San Leandro still have their own eviction moratoriums, and those will remain in effect after the county’s eviction moratorium expires on Saturday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More on \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/important-covid-19-information\">Oakland’s eviction moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More on \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/rights-responsibilities/covid-19-information-tenants-landlords\">Berkeley’s eviction moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/1199/Eviction-Moratorium-Extension\">San Leandro’s eviction moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>That said, just because a city in Alameda County has its own eviction moratorium doesn’t mean renters in that city can’t be evicted. For example, “The Oakland moratorium will continue to protect tenants for eviction due to nonpayment of rent,” Starratt told KQED in an email. “However, if a tenant violated their lease in another way, the landlord will be able to begin an eviction process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The differences between the county’s moratorium and the city moratoriums mean that if you live in Oakland, Berkeley or San Leandro, it’s really important to understand exactly what your city’s rules do and do not protect you against. “I don’t want to give tenants [in those cities] the impression that they are 100% safe,” said Starratt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Housing Secure advises that if you live in Oakland, Berkeley or San Leandro, “to be safe, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/ac-eviction-moratorium-guide\">you should submit proof of your COVID-related loss of income\u003c/a> or increase in expenses to your landlord in the form of pay stubs, bank statements, a letter from your employer, child care bills, or medical bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"evictionmoratoriumalameda\">\u003c/a>What happens for renters now that Alameda County’s eviction moratorium has expired?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rent is due on May 1, and the end of the county’s eviction moratorium means that going forward, Alameda County tenants must pay their rent — or be subject to eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tenant not paying their rent “is grounds for eviction,” said Starratt in an interview with KQED. “Their landlord could serve them with a three-day notice to pay or quit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get a notice from your landlord, time is of the essence for you to respond, says Starratt. “If you get a summons from the courthouse, you have five days to respond. It’s really important that you respond because if you don’t, you won’t actually have any protections,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It won’t matter if the [Alameda County] eviction moratorium protected you — you won’t be able to use that as a reason to defend against an eviction notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What else can Alameda County tenants now be evicted for?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to not paying rent that’s due starting May 1, your landlord can also now attempt to evict you based on your \u003cem>behavior\u003c/em> during the moratorium, says Starratt. “For instance, if you violated your lease by moving someone into your home without permission from your landlord, or destroyed property, or violated the lease in some other way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Currently, tenants can’t be evicted for the nonpayment of rent during the eviction moratorium: They can come after you in small claims court, they can attach your wages, they can get their payment from you, but they can’t evict you for that,” she said. “They have to evict you for a different reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also cautioned that tenants shouldn’t exclusively focus on this particular aspect, “because there’s going to be cases in court where someone will file an appeal on that” and that “the law around this is going to be fast moving and quickly changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t know what the end result is going to be,” Starratt said. “A judge could kick that part of our [Alameda County] ordinance out. They might say, ‘No, that’s not legal. You can’t do it.’ But since it hasn’t started yet, we really don’t know if that protection really exists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When it comes to repaying rent, what can an Alameda County landlord ask of a tenant now that the eviction moratorium has expired?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Landlords have a right to the income that they are owed and they have a right to sue their tenants in small claims court to obtain payment,” said Starratt. Her message: “If you can pay your rent, you should pay it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you didn’t pay your rent and used that money on other items, you could be faced with a court assigning your wages to the landlord in order for the landlord to get their back rent,” warned Starratt.[aside postID=news_11942106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS46906_010_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut-1020x680.jpg']It’s important to remember the original purpose of the COVID-19 Alameda County eviction moratorium, said Starratt: “This was not a rent strike. This was an expectation that at some point you were going to pay your rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tenants with lower income who have not paid their rent and who still have outstanding rent, even if they got some of it paid by rental assistance, need to come up with a payment plan with their landlord and identify some ways to start making payments,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/\">Alameda County Housing Secure\u003c/a> has referrals to agencies that can help you mediate that type of agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should landlords in Alameda County know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There’s anywhere from $125 million to $300 million worth of outstanding rent that’s owed in the county,” said Starratt. “That’s after the emergency rental assistance funding that came from the federal and state governments brought over $220 million worth of back paid rent into the county,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starratt says that in an Alameda County community survey of landlords in fall 2022 and spring 2023, landlords reported that “fully 50% of the rent that’s owed is owed by tenants who are over-income — meaning they’re higher than 80% of area median income. They’re not considered low-income and they didn’t pay their rent during COVID, and that is a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, the best recourse for landlords is to go to small claims court to obtain the back rent owed from those tenants,” said Starratt. [pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Michelle Starratt, housing director, Alameda County\"]‘If we have over $300 million worth of outstanding rent and half of that is for over-income tenants, the over-income tenants need to help us by paying their rent.’[/pullquote]“In the meantime, we are deploying almost $5 million in emergency foreclosure prevention money to landlords,” said Starratt. “Those contracts will be going before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors hopefully before the end of May in order to help those landlords that didn’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t want landlords to lose their properties, so we’re trying to get some of these resources into the community,” Starratt said. “But nearly $5 million in funding is just a drop in the bucket if we have over $300 million worth of outstanding rent and half of that is for over-income tenants. The over-income tenants need to help us by paying their rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s Rachel Vasquez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Alameda County housing officials expect evictions to spike to above pre-pandemic levels as landlords look to recoup back rent and evict tenants if they are unable to pay going forward.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683243521,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":true,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1783},"headData":{"title":"Alameda County's Eviction Moratorium Ended Saturday. 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But when \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/covid19-assets/docs/press/press-release-2023.02.28.pdf\">Alameda ended the county’s public health emergency for COVID-19 on Feb. 28 (PDF)\u003c/a>, it also triggered the end of the moratorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Alameda County housing officials are expecting evictions to spike to above pre-pandemic levels, to some 250–350 evictions per month — as landlords look to recoup back rent and evict tenants if they are unable to pay going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for what to know about the end of the eviction moratorium in Alameda County. For resources available to tenants and landlords in Alameda County, including free legal services for lower-income tenants and homeowners, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/\">Alameda County Housing Secure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will this eviction moratorium’s expiration affect people in Alameda County?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For their part, property owners say they plan to collect what they’re owed. A \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23791228/tenant-landlord-report-42523-work-session-final-1.pdf\">survey of landlords (PDF)\u003c/a> conducted by the Alameda County Community Development Agency this spring found that 67% of respondents said they would pursue an eviction after the moratorium expired. Fifty-seven percent said they would pursue rent debt through small claims court.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This was not a rent strike. This was an expectation that at some point you were going to pay your rent.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Michelle Starratt, housing director, Alameda County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I think we are going to see a lot of displacement, and this is going to affect lower-income community members more than those with higher incomes,” said Michelle Starratt, housing director for Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked very closely at what was happening in surrounding communities like Contra Costa and Santa Clara County when their eviction moratoriums ended last fall,” she said. “What we saw was a rapid rise in evictions and displacement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does Alameda County’s eviction moratorium affect every city in the county?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>No: The Alameda County cities of Oakland, Berkeley and San Leandro still have their own eviction moratoriums, and those will remain in effect after the county’s eviction moratorium expires on Saturday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>More on \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/important-covid-19-information\">Oakland’s eviction moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More on \u003ca href=\"https://rentboard.berkeleyca.gov/rights-responsibilities/covid-19-information-tenants-landlords\">Berkeley’s eviction moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/1199/Eviction-Moratorium-Extension\">San Leandro’s eviction moratorium\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>That said, just because a city in Alameda County has its own eviction moratorium doesn’t mean renters in that city can’t be evicted. For example, “The Oakland moratorium will continue to protect tenants for eviction due to nonpayment of rent,” Starratt told KQED in an email. “However, if a tenant violated their lease in another way, the landlord will be able to begin an eviction process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The differences between the county’s moratorium and the city moratoriums mean that if you live in Oakland, Berkeley or San Leandro, it’s really important to understand exactly what your city’s rules do and do not protect you against. “I don’t want to give tenants [in those cities] the impression that they are 100% safe,” said Starratt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Housing Secure advises that if you live in Oakland, Berkeley or San Leandro, “to be safe, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/ac-eviction-moratorium-guide\">you should submit proof of your COVID-related loss of income\u003c/a> or increase in expenses to your landlord in the form of pay stubs, bank statements, a letter from your employer, child care bills, or medical bills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"evictionmoratoriumalameda\">\u003c/a>What happens for renters now that Alameda County’s eviction moratorium has expired?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rent is due on May 1, and the end of the county’s eviction moratorium means that going forward, Alameda County tenants must pay their rent — or be subject to eviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tenant not paying their rent “is grounds for eviction,” said Starratt in an interview with KQED. “Their landlord could serve them with a three-day notice to pay or quit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you get a notice from your landlord, time is of the essence for you to respond, says Starratt. “If you get a summons from the courthouse, you have five days to respond. It’s really important that you respond because if you don’t, you won’t actually have any protections,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It won’t matter if the [Alameda County] eviction moratorium protected you — you won’t be able to use that as a reason to defend against an eviction notice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What else can Alameda County tenants now be evicted for?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In addition to not paying rent that’s due starting May 1, your landlord can also now attempt to evict you based on your \u003cem>behavior\u003c/em> during the moratorium, says Starratt. “For instance, if you violated your lease by moving someone into your home without permission from your landlord, or destroyed property, or violated the lease in some other way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Currently, tenants can’t be evicted for the nonpayment of rent during the eviction moratorium: They can come after you in small claims court, they can attach your wages, they can get their payment from you, but they can’t evict you for that,” she said. “They have to evict you for a different reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she also cautioned that tenants shouldn’t exclusively focus on this particular aspect, “because there’s going to be cases in court where someone will file an appeal on that” and that “the law around this is going to be fast moving and quickly changing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t know what the end result is going to be,” Starratt said. “A judge could kick that part of our [Alameda County] ordinance out. They might say, ‘No, that’s not legal. You can’t do it.’ But since it hasn’t started yet, we really don’t know if that protection really exists.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When it comes to repaying rent, what can an Alameda County landlord ask of a tenant now that the eviction moratorium has expired?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Landlords have a right to the income that they are owed and they have a right to sue their tenants in small claims court to obtain payment,” said Starratt. Her message: “If you can pay your rent, you should pay it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you didn’t pay your rent and used that money on other items, you could be faced with a court assigning your wages to the landlord in order for the landlord to get their back rent,” warned Starratt.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11942106","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS46906_010_SanJose_AntiEvictionProtest_01272021-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>It’s important to remember the original purpose of the COVID-19 Alameda County eviction moratorium, said Starratt: “This was not a rent strike. This was an expectation that at some point you were going to pay your rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tenants with lower income who have not paid their rent and who still have outstanding rent, even if they got some of it paid by rental assistance, need to come up with a payment plan with their landlord and identify some ways to start making payments,” she said. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ac-housingsecure.org/\">Alameda County Housing Secure\u003c/a> has referrals to agencies that can help you mediate that type of agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What should landlords in Alameda County know?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“There’s anywhere from $125 million to $300 million worth of outstanding rent that’s owed in the county,” said Starratt. “That’s after the emergency rental assistance funding that came from the federal and state governments brought over $220 million worth of back paid rent into the county,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starratt says that in an Alameda County community survey of landlords in fall 2022 and spring 2023, landlords reported that “fully 50% of the rent that’s owed is owed by tenants who are over-income — meaning they’re higher than 80% of area median income. They’re not considered low-income and they didn’t pay their rent during COVID, and that is a problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, the best recourse for landlords is to go to small claims court to obtain the back rent owed from those tenants,” said Starratt. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If we have over $300 million worth of outstanding rent and half of that is for over-income tenants, the over-income tenants need to help us by paying their rent.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Michelle Starratt, housing director, Alameda County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In the meantime, we are deploying almost $5 million in emergency foreclosure prevention money to landlords,” said Starratt. “Those contracts will be going before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors hopefully before the end of May in order to help those landlords that didn’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really don’t want landlords to lose their properties, so we’re trying to get some of these resources into the community,” Starratt said. “But nearly $5 million in funding is just a drop in the bucket if we have over $300 million worth of outstanding rent and half of that is for over-income tenants. The over-income tenants need to help us by paying their rent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, practical explainers and guides about COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"hearken","attributes":{"named":{"id":"10483","src":"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story contains reporting from KQED’s Rachel Vasquez.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11947933/alameda-countys-eviction-moratorium-ends-saturday-whats-next-for-renters-and-landlords","authors":["11785","3243"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_260","news_32707","news_27701","news_18372","news_1775","news_28957","news_29083"],"featImg":"news_11947963","label":"news"},"news_11930792":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11930792","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11930792","score":null,"sort":[1667335993000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"richmond-considers-stronger-rent-caps-as-inflation-soars","title":"Richmond Considers Stronger Rent Caps as Inflation Soars","publishDate":1667335993,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Emily Ross and her partner moved to Richmond together a decade ago. She was working in Napa, her partner was working in San Francisco and they couldn’t find an affordable place to live in either city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked all over the Bay and we wound up getting offered a place in Richmond,” Ross said. “We’d been looking for so long and it was the perfect halfway point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross, 36, fell in love with Richmond as she got involved with local activism centered around racial justice and tenants rights. She worked for an education nonprofit in West Contra Costa County and Oakland schools, but when the pandemic hit, her position was eliminated. Her income dropped as she became an independent contractor, managing political campaigns. Then she and her partner split up, and she had to get her own place. Money got even tighter.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101889929,education_535942,forum_2010101890989\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent is my No. 1 concern when I think about my personal finances. Every time I need a car repair or some unexpected expense comes up, it’s a stressor, you know,” she said. “It’s one of those weird things where I recognize how close I am to the brink of economic disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, she received an email from her landlord saying that her rent would increase by 5% to $1472 a month. Ross lives in a rent-controlled apartment, but under Richmond’s existing \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/41144/Richmond-Fair-Rent-Just-Cause-for-Eviction-and-Homeowner-Protection-Ordinance\">rent stabilization ordinance (PDF)\u003c/a>, landlords can increase their rents along with the Consumer Price Index, or roughly the rate of inflation. But in years like this one, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/07/06/historical-parallels-to-todays-inflationary-episode/\">inflation is soaring to historic levels\u003c/a>, some rents are, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this year’s ballot, Richmond voters will get a chance to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/62288/MEASURE-P---RENT-CONTROL---NOVEMBER-2022-ELECTION?bidId=\">Measure P (PDF)\u003c/a> would limit the rent increases landlords can charge tenants to 3% a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be scary if the measure doesn’t pass,” Ross said. “I think, within a couple years, I would either need a significantly different line of work or I would need to live in a different city and I don’t love any of those options, so I’m going to hope it passes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11930801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with short hair and glasses stands drinking from a mug by the sink in her apartment kitchen\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because her rent has increased, Ross forgoes doctor's appointments and car repairs so she doesn’t get behind on rent. She has built a community here and doesn’t want to get pushed out by the high cost of living. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Richmond's years-old fight over rent control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About half of Richmond’s 118,000 residents rent their homes, according to figures from the Richmond Rent Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m all for homeownership, but some residents are going to rent their whole lives,” said City Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin, who has been fighting for tenants' rights since joining the council. “I see myself as likely being one of those renters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after getting elected to Richmond’s City Council in 2005, she introduced the idea of rent control, but was the only vote in favor of it. A decade later, things had changed and the council approved a renter protection measure that included a rent cap and a just-cause eviction ordinance that set rules on when landlords can evict their tenants. Despite opposition from the California Apartment Association and other property owners, Richmond voters approved the measure in 2016. Measure P promises to amend that ordinance to deal with inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider Measure P a way to avoid displacement, a way to prevent homelessness, and a way to help our struggling families in Richmond stay in their homes,” said McLaughlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Daniels and his wife are among those who have been priced out of Richmond by rising rents. They had been living in a senior living community in Richmond since 2005 and were paying $950 for a two-bedroom apartment. By the time they left Richmond this year, their rent had risen to $1,435.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gayle McLaughlin, Richmond City Councilmember \"]'I consider Measure P a way to avoid displacement, a way to prevent homelessness, and a way to help our struggling families in Richmond stay in their homes.'[/pullquote]“The only people that can afford to pay rent there are people who are still working,” said Daniels. “If you’re in retirement and you’re not getting much money from Social Security, you can’t afford to pay it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They searched for another rental in Richmond, but couldn’t find anything within their price range. So Daniels and his wife joined a waitlist for an apartment in Pinole. When they were finally accepted after four years of waiting, they jumped at the opportunity. Now they pay $993 a month for their two-bedroom apartment, which is bigger than their place in Richmond was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love [our apartment in Pinole] — it’s quiet, the people are friendly,” Daniels said. “My wife already adopted some pets, and a lot of birds and butterflies come around here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that some of his friends from Richmond have asked him for an application to live in his apartment complex in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Landlords affected by inflation, too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mike Vasilas owns two buildings in Richmond, one with four units and another with three. His father immigrated from Greece in the early 1970s and worked as a contractor, building homes throughout Richmond. Seventeen years ago, Vasilas inherited the business from his father and also works as a general contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hands-on, especially for the small guy, small-business style,” said Vasilas. “If someone calls you in the middle of the night, [saying] the water heater blew up, you’re the one going down there and taking care of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many small landlords, Vasilas, 40, tries to do most of the upkeep for his buildings himself, but the cost of maintenance has risen. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nahb.org/blog/2022/04/building-materials-prices-start-2022-with-8-percent-increase\">National Association of Home Builders\u003c/a>, one of the largest trade associations for contractors and developers, the price of building materials has increased by 33% since the start of the pandemic. Vasilas doesn’t have access to the same resources that large corporate landlords do and worries that more rent restrictions could put smaller landlords out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market has gone through the roof for construction,” he said. “You can’t get materials, you can’t get a contractor to come out. It costs — all that has just gone through the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vasilas opposes Measure P because he feels it pinches small landlords the hardest. He’s in favor of capping the rent for a couple years while inflation is high, but he believes landlords should eventually be able to charge their tenants rates that align with inflation so they can make a reasonable profit from their properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The costs [to maintain a building] are going to continue to go up, whether or not we have high [inflation],” he said. “The costs are going up but [the amount that] you’re allowed to increase the rent is basically nothing. It makes you feel hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Renter protections gain momentum across the state\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond is one of many cities throughout the state to consider renter protections this year. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/01/oakland-rent-control-increases-3/\">Oakland passed a similar rent cap\u003c/a> earlier this year, and this November, voters there \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rov_app/measures\">will decide whether to set stricter rules\u003c/a> on why a landlord can evict their tenants. Fairfax, \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/petaluma-approves-just-cause-ordinance-with-4-2-vote-amid-split-support/\">Petaluma\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/28/antioch-approves-rent-stabilization-with-rollback-date-new-tenant-protections/\">Antioch\u003c/a> all passed renter protection measures through their city councils. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/rent-control-pasadena-measure-h-november-2022-election-pomona-bell-gardens-california-housing-landlords-tenants-ab1482\">Residents in Pasadena\u003c/a> are getting ready to vote on their own rent control measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11930813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"a woman in a striped shirt speaks at a rally while a person holds a sign that says 'no rent hikes'\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leah Simon-Weisberg, now legal director for tenants rights group the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, speaks during a rally in Oakland in 2017. \u003ccite>(Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everyone feels anxiety about housing, whether you’re wealthy or not, because your kids can’t move back to your community even if you’re upper-middle-class and your teachers don’t have housing,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the tenants' rights group the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg said this movement has been gaining momentum since the Great Recession and the pandemic made things worse for most renters. Now as tenants face steep rent hikes along with inflation, they are starting to push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the ways you push back is you have to regulate the market, and so rent control, just-cause ordinances and anti-harassment ordinances, those are all ways of basically fighting back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"With Bay Area tenants facing astronomical rent increases, housing advocates are pushing for more protections to help struggling renters — but landlords say they're struggling, too. Here's how the fight is playing out in one East Bay city.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1667342734,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1482},"headData":{"title":"Richmond Considers Stronger Rent Caps as Inflation Soars | KQED","description":"With Bay Area tenants facing astronomical rent increases, housing advocates are pushing for more protections to help struggling renters — but landlords say they're struggling, too. 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She was working in Napa, her partner was working in San Francisco and they couldn’t find an affordable place to live in either city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We looked all over the Bay and we wound up getting offered a place in Richmond,” Ross said. “We’d been looking for so long and it was the perfect halfway point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ross, 36, fell in love with Richmond as she got involved with local activism centered around racial justice and tenants rights. She worked for an education nonprofit in West Contra Costa County and Oakland schools, but when the pandemic hit, her position was eliminated. Her income dropped as she became an independent contractor, managing political campaigns. Then she and her partner split up, and she had to get her own place. Money got even tighter.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"forum_2010101889929,education_535942,forum_2010101890989"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rent is my No. 1 concern when I think about my personal finances. Every time I need a car repair or some unexpected expense comes up, it’s a stressor, you know,” she said. “It’s one of those weird things where I recognize how close I am to the brink of economic disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, she received an email from her landlord saying that her rent would increase by 5% to $1472 a month. Ross lives in a rent-controlled apartment, but under Richmond’s existing \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/41144/Richmond-Fair-Rent-Just-Cause-for-Eviction-and-Homeowner-Protection-Ordinance\">rent stabilization ordinance (PDF)\u003c/a>, landlords can increase their rents along with the Consumer Price Index, or roughly the rate of inflation. But in years like this one, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/07/06/historical-parallels-to-todays-inflationary-episode/\">inflation is soaring to historic levels\u003c/a>, some rents are, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this year’s ballot, Richmond voters will get a chance to change that. \u003ca href=\"https://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/DocumentCenter/View/62288/MEASURE-P---RENT-CONTROL---NOVEMBER-2022-ELECTION?bidId=\">Measure P (PDF)\u003c/a> would limit the rent increases landlords can charge tenants to 3% a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be scary if the measure doesn’t pass,” Ross said. “I think, within a couple years, I would either need a significantly different line of work or I would need to live in a different city and I don’t love any of those options, so I’m going to hope it passes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930801\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11930801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a woman with short hair and glasses stands drinking from a mug by the sink in her apartment kitchen\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/RS59686_001_KQED_EmilyRossRichmond_10272022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Because her rent has increased, Ross forgoes doctor's appointments and car repairs so she doesn’t get behind on rent. She has built a community here and doesn’t want to get pushed out by the high cost of living. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Richmond's years-old fight over rent control\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About half of Richmond’s 118,000 residents rent their homes, according to figures from the Richmond Rent Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m all for homeownership, but some residents are going to rent their whole lives,” said City Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin, who has been fighting for tenants' rights since joining the council. “I see myself as likely being one of those renters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after getting elected to Richmond’s City Council in 2005, she introduced the idea of rent control, but was the only vote in favor of it. A decade later, things had changed and the council approved a renter protection measure that included a rent cap and a just-cause eviction ordinance that set rules on when landlords can evict their tenants. Despite opposition from the California Apartment Association and other property owners, Richmond voters approved the measure in 2016. Measure P promises to amend that ordinance to deal with inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider Measure P a way to avoid displacement, a way to prevent homelessness, and a way to help our struggling families in Richmond stay in their homes,” said McLaughlin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Daniels and his wife are among those who have been priced out of Richmond by rising rents. They had been living in a senior living community in Richmond since 2005 and were paying $950 for a two-bedroom apartment. By the time they left Richmond this year, their rent had risen to $1,435.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'I consider Measure P a way to avoid displacement, a way to prevent homelessness, and a way to help our struggling families in Richmond stay in their homes.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Gayle McLaughlin, Richmond City Councilmember ","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The only people that can afford to pay rent there are people who are still working,” said Daniels. “If you’re in retirement and you’re not getting much money from Social Security, you can’t afford to pay it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They searched for another rental in Richmond, but couldn’t find anything within their price range. So Daniels and his wife joined a waitlist for an apartment in Pinole. When they were finally accepted after four years of waiting, they jumped at the opportunity. Now they pay $993 a month for their two-bedroom apartment, which is bigger than their place in Richmond was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love [our apartment in Pinole] — it’s quiet, the people are friendly,” Daniels said. “My wife already adopted some pets, and a lot of birds and butterflies come around here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that some of his friends from Richmond have asked him for an application to live in his apartment complex in Pinole.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Landlords affected by inflation, too\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mike Vasilas owns two buildings in Richmond, one with four units and another with three. His father immigrated from Greece in the early 1970s and worked as a contractor, building homes throughout Richmond. Seventeen years ago, Vasilas inherited the business from his father and also works as a general contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hands-on, especially for the small guy, small-business style,” said Vasilas. “If someone calls you in the middle of the night, [saying] the water heater blew up, you’re the one going down there and taking care of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many small landlords, Vasilas, 40, tries to do most of the upkeep for his buildings himself, but the cost of maintenance has risen. According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nahb.org/blog/2022/04/building-materials-prices-start-2022-with-8-percent-increase\">National Association of Home Builders\u003c/a>, one of the largest trade associations for contractors and developers, the price of building materials has increased by 33% since the start of the pandemic. Vasilas doesn’t have access to the same resources that large corporate landlords do and worries that more rent restrictions could put smaller landlords out of business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The market has gone through the roof for construction,” he said. “You can’t get materials, you can’t get a contractor to come out. It costs — all that has just gone through the roof.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vasilas opposes Measure P because he feels it pinches small landlords the hardest. He’s in favor of capping the rent for a couple years while inflation is high, but he believes landlords should eventually be able to charge their tenants rates that align with inflation so they can make a reasonable profit from their properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The costs [to maintain a building] are going to continue to go up, whether or not we have high [inflation],” he said. “The costs are going up but [the amount that] you’re allowed to increase the rent is basically nothing. It makes you feel hopeless.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Renter protections gain momentum across the state\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Richmond is one of many cities throughout the state to consider renter protections this year. \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/06/01/oakland-rent-control-increases-3/\">Oakland passed a similar rent cap\u003c/a> earlier this year, and this November, voters there \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/rov_app/measures\">will decide whether to set stricter rules\u003c/a> on why a landlord can evict their tenants. Fairfax, \u003ca href=\"https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/petaluma-approves-just-cause-ordinance-with-4-2-vote-amid-split-support/\">Petaluma\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/28/antioch-approves-rent-stabilization-with-rollback-date-new-tenant-protections/\">Antioch\u003c/a> all passed renter protection measures through their city councils. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/rent-control-pasadena-measure-h-november-2022-election-pomona-bell-gardens-california-housing-landlords-tenants-ab1482\">Residents in Pasadena\u003c/a> are getting ready to vote on their own rent control measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11930813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11930813\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-800x549.jpg\" alt=\"a woman in a striped shirt speaks at a rally while a person holds a sign that says 'no rent hikes'\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-800x549.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/GettyImages-1172506414.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leah Simon-Weisberg, now legal director for tenants rights group the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, speaks during a rally in Oakland in 2017. \u003ccite>(Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everyone feels anxiety about housing, whether you’re wealthy or not, because your kids can’t move back to your community even if you’re upper-middle-class and your teachers don’t have housing,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, legal director for the tenants' rights group the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon-Weisberg said this movement has been gaining momentum since the Great Recession and the pandemic made things worse for most renters. Now as tenants face steep rent hikes along with inflation, they are starting to push back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the ways you push back is you have to regulate the market, and so rent control, just-cause ordinances and anti-harassment ordinances, those are all ways of basically fighting back,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11930792/richmond-considers-stronger-rent-caps-as-inflation-soars","authors":["11672"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_30878","news_3921","news_1467","news_1775","news_28957","news_23361","news_26655","news_579","news_28286"],"featImg":"news_11930798","label":"news"},"news_11917071":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11917071","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11917071","score":null,"sort":[1655244240000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords","title":"More California Cities Are Outlawing Harassment by Landlords","publishDate":1655244240,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When Araceli Guerra moved into her small, two-bedroom apartment in Concord three years ago, it wasn’t in the best shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were cockroaches and mice. Some of the kitchen cabinets were missing doors. Still, Guerra was having trouble finding somewhere she could afford and was running out of time on her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were almost homeless,” she said in Spanish. “And the landlord didn’t ask for a security deposit or anything like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she and her five children moved in. The landlord would periodically bring someone to fumigate the building, but it didn’t seem to matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cockroaches, the mice,” she said, “they never go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shanti Singh, spokesperson, Tenants Together\"]'As people get pushed out further and further, often inland, they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, about three months ago, Guerra said things got really bad. Some new tenants moved in. They drink a lot. And Guerra said they use the alley behind the building to urinate, right below her apartment, which she said brought in even more vermin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last month, Guerra called the city’s building inspector. A few days later, she got an eviction notice. She thinks it’s retaliation. KQED could not reach Guerra’s landlord for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Guerra says she’s getting headaches from the stress of thinking about where she and her family are going to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She may have new recourse under new tenant anti-harassment rules the Concord City Council approved Tuesday. The city is now the latest in a handful of cities across California to adopt such policies since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://longbeach.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=813432&GUID=280A311A-0B63-4965-8CDD-BE64B3D9540C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Beach\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/11320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond\u003c/a> all have approved new rules to stop landlords from harassing their tenants. And councilmembers in Antioch and Chula Vista are considering similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917097 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56616_20220609_TenantsRally-06-e1655239617317.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of three paper hearts -- white, pastel pink, and pastel purple -- with handwritten notes in red and purple pen, clipped with tiny blue and red wooden clothespins to multicolored ribbons: red, green, sheer, dark pink. The backdrop is a shimmery, crimson tablecloth with a paisley border, and blurry below it, on the other side of what must be a table, is a green lawn and what looks like a pair of ankles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayers written on cut-out paper hearts hang from an altar during a tenants rally at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. Tenants and their supporters gathered at the plaza in support of Concord's proposed tenant anti-harassment ordinance. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ rights organizations say the pandemic fueled an increase in calls about landlord harassment. They say they saw landlords shutting off utilities, threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the locks, or taking other actions meant to intimidate tenants into leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, a spokesperson for the statewide organization Tenants Together, said the group’s tenant hotline was overwhelmed with calls during the pandemic – many of them complaints about alleged harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harassment really, really went up during COVID from the beginning,\" Singh said, \"but especially as the rent relief program sort of wore on and people were waiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11911666,news_11906451,news_11905386 label='Related Coverage']She said the slow rollout of rent relief, coupled with the eviction moratorium, meant frustrated landlords were looking for other ways to get their tenants to pay or leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Singh said another reason more tenants in cities like Concord are pushing for these proposals is that, over the past decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904495/a-suburb-with-an-eviction-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more people of color and especially lower-income renters\u003c/a> have been moving away from expensive coastal cities in search of housing they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As people get pushed out further and further, often inland,” she said, “they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord advocates have been pushing back against these new local policies, saying they’re unnecessary since the state already has \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/landlord-harassment/\">laws that prohibit landlords from harassing their tenants\u003c/a>. Joshua Howard, with the California Apartment Association, criticized the local policies for being overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What these ordinances do is they invite excessive penalties on landlords for making what could be considered an innocent mistake,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1918px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917109 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56627_20220609_TenantsRally-18-e1655243996802.jpg\" alt=\"Three people stand in a row outdoors before a backdrop of lush, green trees. The woman in the center, a middle-aged Latina with curly, shoulder-length black hair and wireless glasses, wears a short-sleeved black cassock with a white clerical collar, and a bright stole of a warm yellow that turns to orange, then pink, then purple on both sides. She has her eyes closed and her arms held out, palms up, and appears to be speaking. On both sides of her stands a middle-aged women, one with short gray hair, the other with white gray hair. Both are dressed casually in short-sleeved tops. The woman to her right stands slightly behind her, looking at her as she speaks, sunglasses tucked into her rose T-shirt and a purse hanging from one shoulder. The woman on her left bows her head, hands behind her back, the white wires of headphones coming from both ears.\" width=\"1918\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Leslie Taylor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Concord offers a prayer during a tenants rally and vigil at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The local ordinances expand the definition of what can be considered harassment beyond what’s already allowed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~asucrla/Harassment%20by%20Your%20Landlord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state law\u003c/a>. In Concord, \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">that includes behaviors like\u003c/a> failing to accept rent payments, failing to make timely repairs, or entering the rental unit outside business hours unless requested to do so by the tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also add penalties — up to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\">$10,000 in Los Angeles\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">$5,000 in Concord\u003c/a> — for violating the city’s anti-harassment policy, on top of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1940.2.&lawCode=CIV\">$2,000 allowed under state law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So not only could the landlord be sued under state law, but they could also be sued now under the local law,” Howard said, blasting these policies as excessively punitive. “It creates a double penalty and a second mechanism to sue the owner and impose some significant fines, fees and penalties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant organizers say those penalties are necessary to send a strong message to landlords and property managers that harassment won’t be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really does empower tenants,” Singh said. “What they know instinctively is that this [behavior] is wrong, but for it to be wrong legally actually gives them a lot of strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tenant advocates say eviction moratoriums and the slow rollout of rent relief have led to a spike in harassment by landlords during the pandemic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1655327902,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":929},"headData":{"title":"More California Cities Are Outlawing Harassment by Landlords | KQED","description":"Tenant advocates say eviction moratoriums and the slow rollout of rent relief have led to a spike in harassment by landlords during the pandemic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"More California Cities Are Outlawing Harassment by Landlords","datePublished":"2022-06-14T22:04:00.000Z","dateModified":"2022-06-15T21:18:22.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11917071 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11917071","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/06/14/more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords/","disqusTitle":"More California Cities Are Outlawing Harassment by Landlords","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/8cadaf7e-d672-4dd0-b6a7-aeb40108674e/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11917071/more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Araceli Guerra moved into her small, two-bedroom apartment in Concord three years ago, it wasn’t in the best shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were cockroaches and mice. Some of the kitchen cabinets were missing doors. Still, Guerra was having trouble finding somewhere she could afford and was running out of time on her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were almost homeless,” she said in Spanish. “And the landlord didn’t ask for a security deposit or anything like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, she and her five children moved in. The landlord would periodically bring someone to fumigate the building, but it didn’t seem to matter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cockroaches, the mice,” she said, “they never go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'As people get pushed out further and further, often inland, they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Shanti Singh, spokesperson, Tenants Together","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, about three months ago, Guerra said things got really bad. Some new tenants moved in. They drink a lot. And Guerra said they use the alley behind the building to urinate, right below her apartment, which she said brought in even more vermin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So last month, Guerra called the city’s building inspector. A few days later, she got an eviction notice. She thinks it’s retaliation. KQED could not reach Guerra’s landlord for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Guerra says she’s getting headaches from the stress of thinking about where she and her family are going to live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what to do,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She may have new recourse under new tenant anti-harassment rules the Concord City Council approved Tuesday. The city is now the latest in a handful of cities across California to adopt such policies since the start of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://longbeach.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=M&ID=813432&GUID=280A311A-0B63-4965-8CDD-BE64B3D9540C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Long Beach\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/11320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richmond\u003c/a> all have approved new rules to stop landlords from harassing their tenants. And councilmembers in Antioch and Chula Vista are considering similar legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917097 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56616_20220609_TenantsRally-06-e1655239617317.jpg\" alt=\"A close-up of three paper hearts -- white, pastel pink, and pastel purple -- with handwritten notes in red and purple pen, clipped with tiny blue and red wooden clothespins to multicolored ribbons: red, green, sheer, dark pink. The backdrop is a shimmery, crimson tablecloth with a paisley border, and blurry below it, on the other side of what must be a table, is a green lawn and what looks like a pair of ankles.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prayers written on cut-out paper hearts hang from an altar during a tenants rally at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. Tenants and their supporters gathered at the plaza in support of Concord's proposed tenant anti-harassment ordinance. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tenants’ rights organizations say the pandemic fueled an increase in calls about landlord harassment. They say they saw landlords shutting off utilities, threatening to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement, changing the locks, or taking other actions meant to intimidate tenants into leaving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanti Singh, a spokesperson for the statewide organization Tenants Together, said the group’s tenant hotline was overwhelmed with calls during the pandemic – many of them complaints about alleged harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Harassment really, really went up during COVID from the beginning,\" Singh said, \"but especially as the rent relief program sort of wore on and people were waiting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11911666,news_11906451,news_11905386","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She said the slow rollout of rent relief, coupled with the eviction moratorium, meant frustrated landlords were looking for other ways to get their tenants to pay or leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Singh said another reason more tenants in cities like Concord are pushing for these proposals is that, over the past decade, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904495/a-suburb-with-an-eviction-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more people of color and especially lower-income renters\u003c/a> have been moving away from expensive coastal cities in search of housing they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As people get pushed out further and further, often inland,” she said, “they're moving to places where they don't have any protections, and they're trying to organize in those places.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Landlord advocates have been pushing back against these new local policies, saying they’re unnecessary since the state already has \u003ca href=\"https://www.tobenerlaw.com/landlord-harassment/\">laws that prohibit landlords from harassing their tenants\u003c/a>. Joshua Howard, with the California Apartment Association, criticized the local policies for being overly broad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What these ordinances do is they invite excessive penalties on landlords for making what could be considered an innocent mistake,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11917109\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1918px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11917109 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/06/RS56627_20220609_TenantsRally-18-e1655243996802.jpg\" alt=\"Three people stand in a row outdoors before a backdrop of lush, green trees. The woman in the center, a middle-aged Latina with curly, shoulder-length black hair and wireless glasses, wears a short-sleeved black cassock with a white clerical collar, and a bright stole of a warm yellow that turns to orange, then pink, then purple on both sides. She has her eyes closed and her arms held out, palms up, and appears to be speaking. On both sides of her stands a middle-aged women, one with short gray hair, the other with white gray hair. Both are dressed casually in short-sleeved tops. The woman to her right stands slightly behind her, looking at her as she speaks, sunglasses tucked into her rose T-shirt and a purse hanging from one shoulder. The woman on her left bows her head, hands behind her back, the white wires of headphones coming from both ears.\" width=\"1918\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Leslie Taylor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Concord offers a prayer during a tenants rally and vigil at Todos Santos Plaza in Concord on June 9, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The local ordinances expand the definition of what can be considered harassment beyond what’s already allowed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~asucrla/Harassment%20by%20Your%20Landlord\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state law\u003c/a>. In Concord, \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">that includes behaviors like\u003c/a> failing to accept rent payments, failing to make timely repairs, or entering the rental unit outside business hours unless requested to do so by the tenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also add penalties — up to \u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/residents/tenant-anti-harassment\">$10,000 in Los Angeles\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://stream.ci.concord.ca.us/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/ViewDocument/Regular_Meeting_816_Agenda_Packet_6_14_2022_5_30_00_PM.pdf?meetingId=816&documentType=AgendaPacket&itemId=0&publishId=0&isSection=false\">$5,000 in Concord\u003c/a> — for violating the city’s anti-harassment policy, on top of the \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?sectionNum=1940.2.&lawCode=CIV\">$2,000 allowed under state law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So not only could the landlord be sued under state law, but they could also be sued now under the local law,” Howard said, blasting these policies as excessively punitive. “It creates a double penalty and a second mechanism to sue the owner and impose some significant fines, fees and penalties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant organizers say those penalties are necessary to send a strong message to landlords and property managers that harassment won’t be tolerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really does empower tenants,” Singh said. “What they know instinctively is that this [behavior] is wrong, but for it to be wrong legally actually gives them a lot of strength.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11917071/more-california-cities-are-outlawing-harassment-by-landlords","authors":["11652"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_18538","news_27701","news_30874","news_18372","news_27626","news_21892","news_1775","news_28957","news_28286","news_31229"],"featImg":"news_11917093","label":"news_72"},"news_11909518":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11909518","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11909518","score":null,"sort":[1648498965000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-lawmakers-struck-a-deal-to-extend-eviction-protections-after-delays-in-rent-relief-program","title":"California Lawmakers Strike a Deal to Extend Eviction Protections After Delays in Rent Relief Program","publishDate":1648498965,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When California legislators voted last June to again extend eviction protections, they promised \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/06/california-eviction-moratorium-deal/\">the third time would be the charm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state’s rent relief program, which has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/04/california-rent-relief-tenants/\">struggled to reach the neediest tenants and landlords from the start\u003c/a>, continues to lag. As of last week, the state has paid $2.4 billion to about \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/dashboard.html\">214,000 households\u003c/a> — fewer than half of all that have applied for aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those delays — which one study found left the average tenant waiting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/03/california-rent-relief-wait/\">about three months to get paid\u003c/a> — forced legislators’ hands: Last Thursday, the state’s top legislative leaders struck another last-minute deal designed to stave off eviction for another three months for hundreds of thousands of renters who have applied for relief but are still waiting to hear back.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Tim Grayson\"]'It would be cruel, wasteful and unfair to subject these Californians to eviction or the loss of rental income now, when they have done everything asked of them, and distribution of their emergency rental assistance is imminent.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first hearing on \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2179\">Assembly Bill 2179\u003c/a> is scheduled for today. To pass, it requires two-thirds majorities in both the Assembly and state Senate. The current law, set to expire Thursday, says a judge must pause an eviction proceeding if a rent relief application is pending. The new legislation, expected to go into effect by Thursday, would shield tenants through June 30 as the state continues to process their paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is on us to take care of the thousands of Californians — landlords and tenants alike — who reached out to COVID-19 emergency rental assistance programs for help and still have their applications pending,” said Assemblymember Tim Grayson, a Concord Democrat who is the bill’s co-author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be cruel, wasteful and unfair to subject these Californians to eviction or the loss of rental income now, when they have done everything asked of them, and distribution of their emergency rental assistance is imminent,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But renters who do not \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index.html\">apply to the program\u003c/a> by the Thursday deadline will not receive any protections. Landlords will still be able to take those tenants to court over missed rent starting Friday.[aside postID=\"news_11908640,news_11907165,news_11889738\" label=\"Related Posts\"]California has about $5.4 billion in federal funds to help qualified applicants with 100% of unpaid rent dating back to April 2020, some of which is being distributed by local rent relief programs. Lawmakers last month \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB115\">authorized more state spending\u003c/a> if the federal dollars don’t cover the costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood Democrat, \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20220324-legislative-leaders-issue-statement-extension-rent-relief-legislation\">endorsed the new bill in a joint statement\u003c/a> Thursday, promising it would move quickly through both houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom appears likely to sign the bill. A spokesperson told CalMatters in an email: “The governor strongly supports an extension that continues to protect tenants well into the summer and ensures that every eligible applicant is protected under this nation-leading rent relief program as it winds down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local protections at risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-rha.org/\">California Rental Housing Association\u003c/a>, which says it represents more than 20,000 landlords with 575,000 units across the state, issued a statement opposing the bill. The group said that statewide eviction protections are no longer necessary, and it urged the timely payment of rent relief. (Some major provisions of the statewide moratorium expired September 30.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” said Christine Kevane LaMarca, CalRHA president. “By halting applications for those in need, and extending the eviction moratorium, rental housing providers are being forced to carry the financial weight of the pandemic and some of them will lose their properties as a result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislative leaders drove negotiations for the last-minute deal, according to Debra Carlton, executive vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/\">California Apartment Association\u003c/a>, which also represents landlords at the state Capitol. As in the most recent extension negotiations last summer, Carlton said neither her group nor tenant advocates were at the table, but their recommendations were taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association’s main request was granted: Local jurisdictions won’t be allowed to enact new tenant protections until July 1, and any protections put in place by local governments after Aug. 19, 2020, also will be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries tenant advocates. The bill would postpone hard-fought protections that were set to go into effect on April 1, notably in \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-la-county-eviction-protections-what-it-means-local-renters-rent-freeze\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/covid-19-emergency-tenant-protections\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article254508367.html\">Fresno\u003c/a>. A few protections put in place before the cutoff — including in the \u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/covid-19/renter-protections\">city of Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/hcd/documents/EvictionMoratoriumOrdinanceSummaryFAQ8.11.20.pdf\">Alameda County\u003c/a> — will remain in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see it as honestly cruel,” said Alexander Harnden, a staff attorney at \u003ca href=\"https://innercitylaw.org/\">Inner City Law Center\u003c/a>, which serves tenants across LA County. “Repealing protections the day before they’re set to kick in means a lot of people are not going to get that information. It’s really setting people up to get evicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Informing renters of the patchwork of protections in LA County has been no easy feat, Harnden said, as some tenants continue to have the false belief there’s an outright eviction ban statewide. In fact, sheriff’s departments across California have carried out \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/07/california-eviction-moratorium-tenants/\">at least 10,000 lockouts\u003c/a> — the last step in an eviction process — since the start of the pandemic, according to a CalMatters investigation last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using data obtained through a Public Records Act request, Kyle Nelson, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, found the LA County Sheriff’s Department performed lockouts at more than 8,600 households between April 2020 and September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates worry that after the application deadline for rent relief passes on Thursday, thousands of renters will still need help. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2022/demo/hhp/hhp43.html\">most recent survey\u003c/a> conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 977,000 California households at all income levels reported no confidence in their ability to pay April’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-march-2022/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=e9e6242105-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-e9e6242105-151326976&mc_cid=e9e6242105&mc_eid=119767cb73\">another poll released last week\u003c/a>, 34% of renters said they are “very concerned” about not having enough money to pay their housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like a mixed bag,” said Tina Rosales, legislative advocate at the \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>. “With our \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">budget surplus\u003c/a>, we thought that there would be an extension of the deadline to apply for [rent relief], and there wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to another \u003ca href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/072/973/original/TT_2021-22_ERAP_Survey.pdf\">recent survey of 58 tenant organizations\u003c/a> across the state by \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/\">Tenants Together\u003c/a>, an advocacy group, 90% of organizations helping renters apply for aid said their tenants reported difficulties applying. Half of survey respondents complained of inadequate language access and lack of community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re basically saying, ‘Tough luck,’” said Shanti Singh, legislative and communications director for the group. “‘If we didn’t do our job telling you this program exists, that’s your problem now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, a coalition of tenant advocacy groups filed a discrimination complaint against the state over \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/10/california-rent-relief-immigrants-barriers/\">language barriers\u003c/a> for non-English speakers. The case is now under \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/complaint-process\">investigation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to Tiffany Hickey, a staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout this complaint process, we’ve really been pushing to have this investigated and addressed as quickly as possible because people are being left out of relief because they can’t access the program,” Hickey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"State lawmakers are rushing this week to extend California eviction protections for hundreds of thousands of tenants waiting for rent relief. But some advocacy groups for landlords and tenants alike are unhappy with the bill.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1648504543,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1327},"headData":{"title":"California Lawmakers Strike a Deal to Extend Eviction Protections After Delays in Rent Relief Program | KQED","description":"State lawmakers are rushing this week to extend California eviction protections for hundreds of thousands of tenants waiting for rent relief. But some advocacy groups for landlords and tenants alike are unhappy with the bill.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Lawmakers Strike a Deal to Extend Eviction Protections After Delays in Rent Relief Program","datePublished":"2022-03-28T20:22:45.000Z","dateModified":"2022-03-28T21:55:43.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11909518 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11909518","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/03/28/california-lawmakers-struck-a-deal-to-extend-eviction-protections-after-delays-in-rent-relief-program/","disqusTitle":"California Lawmakers Strike a Deal to Extend Eviction Protections After Delays in Rent Relief Program","source":"CalMatters","sourceUrl":"https://calmatters.org/","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/manuela-tobias\">Manuela Tobias\u003c/a> ","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11909518/california-lawmakers-struck-a-deal-to-extend-eviction-protections-after-delays-in-rent-relief-program","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When California legislators voted last June to again extend eviction protections, they promised \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/06/california-eviction-moratorium-deal/\">the third time would be the charm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the state’s rent relief program, which has \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/04/california-rent-relief-tenants/\">struggled to reach the neediest tenants and landlords from the start\u003c/a>, continues to lag. As of last week, the state has paid $2.4 billion to about \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/dashboard.html\">214,000 households\u003c/a> — fewer than half of all that have applied for aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those delays — which one study found left the average tenant waiting \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2022/03/california-rent-relief-wait/\">about three months to get paid\u003c/a> — forced legislators’ hands: Last Thursday, the state’s top legislative leaders struck another last-minute deal designed to stave off eviction for another three months for hundreds of thousands of renters who have applied for relief but are still waiting to hear back.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'It would be cruel, wasteful and unfair to subject these Californians to eviction or the loss of rental income now, when they have done everything asked of them, and distribution of their emergency rental assistance is imminent.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Tim Grayson","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first hearing on \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2179\">Assembly Bill 2179\u003c/a> is scheduled for today. To pass, it requires two-thirds majorities in both the Assembly and state Senate. The current law, set to expire Thursday, says a judge must pause an eviction proceeding if a rent relief application is pending. The new legislation, expected to go into effect by Thursday, would shield tenants through June 30 as the state continues to process their paperwork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is on us to take care of the thousands of Californians — landlords and tenants alike — who reached out to COVID-19 emergency rental assistance programs for help and still have their applications pending,” said Assemblymember Tim Grayson, a Concord Democrat who is the bill’s co-author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be cruel, wasteful and unfair to subject these Californians to eviction or the loss of rental income now, when they have done everything asked of them, and distribution of their emergency rental assistance is imminent,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But renters who do not \u003ca href=\"https://housing.ca.gov/covid_rr/index.html\">apply to the program\u003c/a> by the Thursday deadline will not receive any protections. Landlords will still be able to take those tenants to court over missed rent starting Friday.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11908640,news_11907165,news_11889738","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>California has about $5.4 billion in federal funds to help qualified applicants with 100% of unpaid rent dating back to April 2020, some of which is being distributed by local rent relief programs. Lawmakers last month \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB115\">authorized more state spending\u003c/a> if the federal dollars don’t cover the costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Lakewood Democrat, \u003ca href=\"https://sd39.senate.ca.gov/news/20220324-legislative-leaders-issue-statement-extension-rent-relief-legislation\">endorsed the new bill in a joint statement\u003c/a> Thursday, promising it would move quickly through both houses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom appears likely to sign the bill. A spokesperson told CalMatters in an email: “The governor strongly supports an extension that continues to protect tenants well into the summer and ensures that every eligible applicant is protected under this nation-leading rent relief program as it winds down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Local protections at risk\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Friday, the \u003ca href=\"https://cal-rha.org/\">California Rental Housing Association\u003c/a>, which says it represents more than 20,000 landlords with 575,000 units across the state, issued a statement opposing the bill. The group said that statewide eviction protections are no longer necessary, and it urged the timely payment of rent relief. (Some major provisions of the statewide moratorium expired September 30.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enough is enough,” said Christine Kevane LaMarca, CalRHA president. “By halting applications for those in need, and extending the eviction moratorium, rental housing providers are being forced to carry the financial weight of the pandemic and some of them will lose their properties as a result.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislative leaders drove negotiations for the last-minute deal, according to Debra Carlton, executive vice president of the \u003ca href=\"https://caanet.org/\">California Apartment Association\u003c/a>, which also represents landlords at the state Capitol. As in the most recent extension negotiations last summer, Carlton said neither her group nor tenant advocates were at the table, but their recommendations were taken into account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The association’s main request was granted: Local jurisdictions won’t be allowed to enact new tenant protections until July 1, and any protections put in place by local governments after Aug. 19, 2020, also will be delayed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what worries tenant advocates. The bill would postpone hard-fought protections that were set to go into effect on April 1, notably in \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/los-angeles-la-county-eviction-protections-what-it-means-local-renters-rent-freeze\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/information/covid-19-emergency-tenant-protections\">San Francisco\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/fresnoland/article254508367.html\">Fresno\u003c/a>. A few protections put in place before the cutoff — including in the \u003ca href=\"https://housing.lacity.org/covid-19/renter-protections\">city of Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/hcd/documents/EvictionMoratoriumOrdinanceSummaryFAQ8.11.20.pdf\">Alameda County\u003c/a> — will remain in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see it as honestly cruel,” said Alexander Harnden, a staff attorney at \u003ca href=\"https://innercitylaw.org/\">Inner City Law Center\u003c/a>, which serves tenants across LA County. “Repealing protections the day before they’re set to kick in means a lot of people are not going to get that information. It’s really setting people up to get evicted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Informing renters of the patchwork of protections in LA County has been no easy feat, Harnden said, as some tenants continue to have the false belief there’s an outright eviction ban statewide. In fact, sheriff’s departments across California have carried out \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/07/california-eviction-moratorium-tenants/\">at least 10,000 lockouts\u003c/a> — the last step in an eviction process — since the start of the pandemic, according to a CalMatters investigation last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using data obtained through a Public Records Act request, Kyle Nelson, a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, found the LA County Sheriff’s Department performed lockouts at more than 8,600 households between April 2020 and September 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tenant advocates worry that after the application deadline for rent relief passes on Thursday, thousands of renters will still need help. In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2022/demo/hhp/hhp43.html\">most recent survey\u003c/a> conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 977,000 California households at all income levels reported no confidence in their ability to pay April’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/ppic-statewide-survey-californians-and-their-government-march-2022/?utm_source=CalMatters+Newsletters&utm_campaign=e9e6242105-WHATMATTERS&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_faa7be558d-e9e6242105-151326976&mc_cid=e9e6242105&mc_eid=119767cb73\">another poll released last week\u003c/a>, 34% of renters said they are “very concerned” about not having enough money to pay their housing costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like a mixed bag,” said Tina Rosales, legislative advocate at the \u003ca href=\"https://wclp.org/\">Western Center on Law and Poverty\u003c/a>. “With our \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/01/california-budget-newsom/\">budget surplus\u003c/a>, we thought that there would be an extension of the deadline to apply for [rent relief], and there wasn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to another \u003ca href=\"https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/072/973/original/TT_2021-22_ERAP_Survey.pdf\">recent survey of 58 tenant organizations\u003c/a> across the state by \u003ca href=\"https://www.tenantstogether.org/\">Tenants Together\u003c/a>, an advocacy group, 90% of organizations helping renters apply for aid said their tenants reported difficulties applying. Half of survey respondents complained of inadequate language access and lack of community outreach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re basically saying, ‘Tough luck,’” said Shanti Singh, legislative and communications director for the group. “‘If we didn’t do our job telling you this program exists, that’s your problem now.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last June, a coalition of tenant advocacy groups filed a discrimination complaint against the state over \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/10/california-rent-relief-immigrants-barriers/\">language barriers\u003c/a> for non-English speakers. The case is now under \u003ca href=\"https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/complaint-process\">investigation\u003c/a> by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to Tiffany Hickey, a staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/\">Asian Law Caucus\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout this complaint process, we’ve really been pushing to have this investigated and addressed as quickly as possible because people are being left out of relief because they can’t access the program,” Hickey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11909518/california-lawmakers-struck-a-deal-to-extend-eviction-protections-after-delays-in-rent-relief-program","authors":["byline_news_11909518"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_30869","news_30870","news_28957","news_29413","news_27707"],"featImg":"news_11879728","label":"source_news_11909518"},"news_11898058":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11898058","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11898058","score":null,"sort":[1639172396000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"is-he-going-to-kick-us-to-the-street-a-walnut-creek-mom-fights-to-keep-her-apartment-amid-alleged-landlord-harassment","title":"'Is He Going to Kick Us to the Street?': A Walnut Creek Mom Fights to Keep Her Apartment Amid Alleged Landlord Harassment","publishDate":1639172396,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Is He Going to Kick Us to the Street?’: A Walnut Creek Mom Fights to Keep Her Apartment Amid Alleged Landlord Harassment | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The past few years have been long and stressful for Dahbia Benakli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, she got divorced. With no one to help take care of her two young daughters, she was forced to quit her job as a preschool teacher. Her father helped her buy a car so she could drive for Uber and DoorDash to make rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and ride-hailing work dried up. Together with unemployment insurance, Benakli was making just over $2,000 a month — almost half of which she was using to pay the rent for the one-bedroom Walnut Creek apartment she’s lived in for the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2021, as officials began easing COVID-19 restrictions, Benakli began planning a trip to visit her parents in Algeria, where she grew up. She hadn’t been back in five years, and she couldn’t wait to return, with her daughters in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s also when Benakli says the new landlord and owner of her building began harassing her and other tenants in an effort to push them out, even though she insists she had consistently paid her rent on time and had not in any way violated her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new owner — a local real estate investor named Steven Pinza, president of the Pinza Group — sent Benakli a letter, ordering her to move out by July 31, under the pretense of having to conduct major building repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a kitchen and a living room, with a woman and her two daughters.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dahbia Benakli with her two daughters in their small one-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“While we wish these repairs were not necessary or could be done without you moving out, it is not possible,” he wrote. “We have received multiple opinions, including from our insurance representatives, which state that these must be remediated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza sent these notices to tenants in 11 of the building’s 18 units. Many of those tenants, Benakli said, were people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza gave them the option to temporarily relocate for two months at their own expense “while renovations are made,” then pay an additional $600 per month when they returned — a proposition she could not afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"housing\"]Upon receiving the letters, most of the tenants moved out. But, as the July 31 deadline approached, Benakli and two of her neighbors decided not to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Pinza refused to accept her July rent payments, removed the tables and chairs in the courtyard, and informed her and her neighbors that anything left outside — like toys and bikes — would be thrown away. And a sudden barrage of loud construction work began just outside their doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My 7-year-old was like, ‘Mom, is he going to kick us to the street? Mom, what’s going to happen?’” said Benakli. “It’s horrible for her to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza did not respond to requests for comment, despite multiple attempts to reach him by phone and email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of California cities are moving to deter property owners from harassing their renters. Tenants’ advocates across the state say the frequency of reports of owner harassment has spiked during the pandemic — particularly after the enactment of federal and local eviction moratoriums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, for instance, Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit immigrant and tenants’ rights group, reported a 70% jump in owner harassment complaints between March 2020 and June 2021. And the Concord-based nonprofit Monument Impact said the number of calls it received from renters roughly tripled during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898079 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of a gray apartment building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli keeps the window shades in her apartment closed most of the day in case the property owner walks by. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, a spate of cities throughout California — including Oakland, Los Angeles and Richmond — recently have implemented stronger tenant anti-harassment laws. Richmond’s ordinance, for example, bans property owners from refusing lawful rent payments or using “coercion, fraud or intimidation” to push tenants out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without being able to lean on any similar ordinance in Walnut Creek, Benakli and her neighbors sought help from the local chapter of a tenants’ rights group called Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">held a small protest outside Pinza’s home in Walnut Creek\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE Legal Director Leah Simon-Weisberg says Pinza has been on her group’s radar for some time, having a reputation for buying apartment buildings in the area and evicting tenants to remodel them and raise rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tends to just make money by pushing people out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a group of tenants in a Concord apartment building that Pinza managed appealed to city leaders for help, \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">alleging that he raised their rents by 30%, threatened some of the tenants and tried to evict them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898077 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\" alt=\"A women does the hair of the girl in a bathroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli works on her daughter Leah’s hair in their bathroom. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Benakli says she decided to stay in her apartment and face potential eviction proceedings in court because she and her kids didn’t have anywhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing that Pinza would empty out her apartment if she left for any length of time, Benakli decided to cancel her trip to Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really afraid that if we go, he comes and leaves our stuff [on] the street,” she said. “He was so harassing, he was so rude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month she found out both of her parents had contracted COVID-19. And while her mother eventually recovered, her father died in July. A framed photo of him now hangs in her kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Benakli and her daughters, along with their two neighbors, are still holding out in their apartments, waiting for Pinza to take them to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they haven’t heard anything from him since the end of July, and haven’t paid rent since then either, despite being willing to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear why Pinza hasn’t moved forward with eviction proceedings, although advocates at ACCE say it may be out of concern that he doesn’t have the legal grounds to evict them and could lose in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A women sits at a table, with a photo of a man behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-800x776.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1020x990.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-160x155.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1536x1491.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-2048x1987.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1920x1863.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli sits in her kitchen, below a portrait of her father, who recently died from CovId-19. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If he becomes human and, you know, come and talk to us and give us some more time and we’ll work it out,” Benakli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, she said she’s ready for whatever comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the uncertainty of her living situation, Benakli says things feels a bit more stable now. In September, she found a new preschool teaching job that offers child care at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is quite a relief,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benakli says she dreams of soon being able to move into a house where her daughters can have their own rooms and a backyard to play in. She hopes she’ll also be able to save enough money to visit Algeria again, and bring her mom back to the U.S. to live with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll leave one day when we can,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kori Suzuki is pursuing his master’s degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Tenants' advocates across the state say the frequency of reports of owner harassment has spiked during the pandemic — particularly after the enactment of federal and local eviction moratoriums.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1639176350,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":35,"wordCount":1248},"headData":{"title":"'Is He Going to Kick Us to the Street?': A Walnut Creek Mom Fights to Keep Her Apartment Amid Alleged Landlord Harassment | KQED","description":"Tenants' advocates across the state say the frequency of reports of owner harassment has spiked during the pandemic — particularly after the enactment of federal and local eviction moratoriums.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"'Is He Going to Kick Us to the Street?': A Walnut Creek Mom Fights to Keep Her Apartment Amid Alleged Landlord Harassment","datePublished":"2021-12-10T21:39:56.000Z","dateModified":"2021-12-10T22:45:50.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/2ca33a19-35df-4ffb-947d-adf30130eaa4/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprByline":"Kori Suzuki","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","path":"/news/11898058/is-he-going-to-kick-us-to-the-street-a-walnut-creek-mom-fights-to-keep-her-apartment-amid-alleged-landlord-harassment","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The past few years have been long and stressful for Dahbia Benakli.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of 2019, she got divorced. With no one to help take care of her two young daughters, she was forced to quit her job as a preschool teacher. Her father helped her buy a car so she could drive for Uber and DoorDash to make rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then the coronavirus pandemic hit, and ride-hailing work dried up. Together with unemployment insurance, Benakli was making just over $2,000 a month — almost half of which she was using to pay the rent for the one-bedroom Walnut Creek apartment she’s lived in for the last 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2021, as officials began easing COVID-19 restrictions, Benakli began planning a trip to visit her parents in Algeria, where she grew up. She hadn’t been back in five years, and she couldn’t wait to return, with her daughters in tow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s also when Benakli says the new landlord and owner of her building began harassing her and other tenants in an effort to push them out, even though she insists she had consistently paid her rent on time and had not in any way violated her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new owner — a local real estate investor named Steven Pinza, president of the Pinza Group — sent Benakli a letter, ordering her to move out by July 31, under the pretense of having to conduct major building repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898712\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898712\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a kitchen and a living room, with a woman and her two daughters.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-3-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dahbia Benakli with her two daughters in their small one-bedroom apartment in Walnut Creek. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“While we wish these repairs were not necessary or could be done without you moving out, it is not possible,” he wrote. “We have received multiple opinions, including from our insurance representatives, which state that these must be remediated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza sent these notices to tenants in 11 of the building’s 18 units. Many of those tenants, Benakli said, were people of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza gave them the option to temporarily relocate for two months at their own expense “while renovations are made,” then pay an additional $600 per month when they returned — a proposition she could not afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"related coverage ","tag":"housing"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Upon receiving the letters, most of the tenants moved out. But, as the July 31 deadline approached, Benakli and two of her neighbors decided not to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Pinza refused to accept her July rent payments, removed the tables and chairs in the courtyard, and informed her and her neighbors that anything left outside — like toys and bikes — would be thrown away. And a sudden barrage of loud construction work began just outside their doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My 7-year-old was like, ‘Mom, is he going to kick us to the street? Mom, what’s going to happen?’” said Benakli. “It’s horrible for her to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pinza did not respond to requests for comment, despite multiple attempts to reach him by phone and email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A growing number of California cities are moving to deter property owners from harassing their renters. Tenants’ advocates across the state say the frequency of reports of owner harassment has spiked during the pandemic — particularly after the enactment of federal and local eviction moratoriums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, for instance, Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit immigrant and tenants’ rights group, reported a 70% jump in owner harassment complaints between March 2020 and June 2021. And the Concord-based nonprofit Monument Impact said the number of calls it received from renters roughly tripled during that same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898079 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-4-scaled-e1638575283263.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior of a gray apartment building.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli keeps the window shades in her apartment closed most of the day in case the property owner walks by. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In response, a spate of cities throughout California — including Oakland, Los Angeles and Richmond — recently have implemented stronger tenant anti-harassment laws. Richmond’s ordinance, for example, bans property owners from refusing lawful rent payments or using “coercion, fraud or intimidation” to push tenants out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without being able to lean on any similar ordinance in Walnut Creek, Benakli and her neighbors sought help from the local chapter of a tenants’ rights group called Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), and \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">held a small protest outside Pinza’s home in Walnut Creek\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ACCE Legal Director Leah Simon-Weisberg says Pinza has been on her group’s radar for some time, having a reputation for buying apartment buildings in the area and evicting tenants to remodel them and raise rents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He tends to just make money by pushing people out,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a group of tenants in a Concord apartment building that Pinza managed appealed to city leaders for help, \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/concord-ca/concord-tenants-locked-battle-property-manager-will-appeal-council\">alleging that he raised their rents by 30%, threatened some of the tenants and tried to evict them\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11898077 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-2-scaled-e1638577421940.jpg\" alt=\"A women does the hair of the girl in a bathroom.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli works on her daughter Leah’s hair in their bathroom. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Benakli says she decided to stay in her apartment and face potential eviction proceedings in court because she and her kids didn’t have anywhere else to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fearing that Pinza would empty out her apartment if she left for any length of time, Benakli decided to cancel her trip to Algeria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really afraid that if we go, he comes and leaves our stuff [on] the street,” she said. “He was so harassing, he was so rude.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month she found out both of her parents had contracted COVID-19. And while her mother eventually recovered, her father died in July. A framed photo of him now hangs in her kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Benakli and her daughters, along with their two neighbors, are still holding out in their apartments, waiting for Pinza to take them to court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says they haven’t heard anything from him since the end of July, and haven’t paid rent since then either, despite being willing to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear why Pinza hasn’t moved forward with eviction proceedings, although advocates at ACCE say it may be out of concern that he doesn’t have the legal grounds to evict them and could lose in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898754\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898754\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A women sits at a table, with a photo of a man behind her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"2484\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-800x776.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1020x990.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-160x155.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1536x1491.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-2048x1987.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/ksuzuki-harassment-11-1920x1863.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benakli sits in her kitchen, below a portrait of her father, who recently died from CovId-19. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If he becomes human and, you know, come and talk to us and give us some more time and we’ll work it out,” Benakli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, she said she’s ready for whatever comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the uncertainty of her living situation, Benakli says things feels a bit more stable now. In September, she found a new preschool teaching job that offers child care at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is quite a relief,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Benakli says she dreams of soon being able to move into a house where her daughters can have their own rooms and a backyard to play in. She hopes she’ll also be able to save enough money to visit Algeria again, and bring her mom back to the U.S. to live with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll leave one day when we can,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Kori Suzuki is pursuing his master’s degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11898058/is-he-going-to-kick-us-to-the-street-a-walnut-creek-mom-fights-to-keep-her-apartment-amid-alleged-landlord-harassment","authors":["byline_news_11898058"],"programs":["news_26731"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_1775","news_28957","news_28286"],"featImg":"news_11898722","label":"news_26731"},"news_11897353":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11897353","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11897353","score":null,"sort":[1638172899000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sold-out-live-evictions-moratoriums-and-rent-relief","title":"SOLD OUT LIVE: Evictions, Moratoriums and Rent Relief","publishDate":1638172899,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SOLD OUT LIVE: Evictions, Moratoriums and Rent Relief | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":33522,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The coronavirus pandemic brought millions of people to the edge of losing their housing. When the economy ground to a halt, it became very clear that many people who lost their jobs wouldn’t be able to pay rent, and would face eviction. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The pandemic also sparked a national conversation about the connection between housing and health. Without a safe place to live, and the ability to shelter-in-place, many people would become more vulnerable to getting sick. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The response was unprecedented: the federal government announced an eviction moratorium. Many states like California and local governments here in the Bay Area went even further and passed stronger eviction protections. 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And as pandemic-related protections have expired, a growing number of tenants, advocates, and political leaders are questioning the system of evictions and searching for ways to overhaul it and keep people housed. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In advance of the new season (coming in February 2022) we held a a live event at KQED’s San Francisco headquarters with \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://timathomas.github.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tim Thomas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Research Director of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.urbandisplacement.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Urban Displacement Project\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at UC Berkeley, Anne Tamiko Omura, Executive Director of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.evictiondefensecenteroakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eviction Defense Center\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thebrhc.org/leadership.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Krista Gulbransen\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Executive Director of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.thebrhc.org/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley Rental Housing Coalition\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">We discussed racial disparities in evictions and housing, the recent eviction moratoriums, the struggles to get rent relief to those who need it most, and the intersection of property rights and the human right to housing. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/NIwODvf3NkQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have a listen to the conversation (or watch the video of the event on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/NIwODvf3NkQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Youtube\u003c/a> above), and follow SOLD OUT wherever you listen to podcasts. 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