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Strong renter protections are needed in Oakland and other Bay Area cities

by Lynda Carson
Tenant advocates across the Bay Area are urging renters to vote on strong renter protections during the upcoming November elections in the cities of Oakland, Richmond, Alameda, Burlingame, San Mateo, and Mountain View!
Strong renter protections are needed in Oakland and other Bay Area cities

By Lynda Carson - August 8, 2016

Oakland - Strong renter protections are needed in Oakland and other Bay Area cities to protect renters from landlords and apartment complexes including the Hillside Apartments, Booker Emery Apartments, West Grand Hotel, Empyrean Towers, Alice Tse and Empyrean Towers, Richard Thomas, Environment and Land Management, Inc., slumlords Hong Gardner and John Gardner, Richard Singer, Elizabeth Ann Williams, Don Lindsey of Alameda, and other bad landlords operating in Alameda.

Sometimes the much needed renter protections help to protect renters seeking legal assistance from the Eviction Defense Center, or the East Bay Community Law Center, or local attorney Andrew Wolff, and Causa Justa/Just Cause.

Renter protections are on the ballot for voters to vote on this coming November in the cities of Oakland, Richmond, Alameda, Burlingame, and San Mateo, and Mountain View, with rent control being discussed in Concord according to the East Bay Times.

With a strong renters movement growing and being successful in combating slumlords, bad landlords, and greedy landlords who are taking tenants to the cleaners with excessive high rents, and stolen security deposits, the tenants are fighting back against the landlords who are taking the hard earned savings and earnings from our local families who are struggling to keep a roof over their head, and their families fed. Meanwhile, the California Apartment Association (CAA) is doing everything possible to sabotage the renters movement in the effort to keep tenants from having any renter protections, and the California Apartment Association (CAA) is stalking the tenant’s movement every step of the way.

As the tenant activists and their supporters gather momentum to pass renter protections in November, in recent months tenant advocates including Richmond City Councilwoman Gayle McLaughlin of the renters organization called Fair and Affordable Richmond said, “Fair and Affordable Richmond” on Saturday kicked off a signature gathering campaign to place a Rent Control and Just Cause Eviction Protection ballot measure on the November ballot.

The Coalition had until June to gather 4,198 signatures to place the measure on the November ballot, and have been successful in their efforts.

”Rent increases have reached a crisis level and we are doing something about it in Richmond,” said Richmond Councilwoman Gayle Mclaughlin.

“We welcome volunteers to join us gathering signatures for a ballot measure in November to stabilize rents and stop the displacement that occurs from skyrocketing rents,” she said.

The average monthly rent in Richmond is $1,172, and the rents just keep getting higher, and higher.

“A recent poll commissioned by Fair and Affordable Richmond shows that nearly two-thirds of voters would vote today to enact rent control and just cause eviction protections,” according to the coalition. “Richmond voters understood that similar limits on evictions and unreasonable rent increases have helped to prevent thousands of middle-class and low-income people from losing their homes, making communities safer and more stable for everyone, and they think the City of Richmond should have such protections.”

Tenant advocates across the Bay Area are urging renters to vote on strong renters protections during the upcoming November elections in the cities of Oakland, Richmond, Alameda, Burlingame, San Mateo, and Mountain View.

Lynda Carson may be reached at tenantsrule [at] yahoo.com
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