The Alameda City Council voted unanimously to extend an urgency ordinance prohibiting residential rent increases of 8 percent or more and “no-cause” evictions for 60 days at its meeting Jan. 5.
Hundreds evicted just in time for Veterans Day holiday
Residents at the Bayview Apartments at 470 Central Ave., were given tenancy termination notices on Nov. 7, according to Catherine Pauling, spokesperson for Alameda Renters Coalition.
Seminar will cover what’s available after pandemic-era services end
The Prosecution and Public Rights Unit of the Alameda City Attorney’s Office will be holding its third annual Fair Housing conference, which will be free and open to all members of the public.
The Alameda Renters Coalition (ARC) filed a ballot initiative last Monday in response to what it defines as “a crisis of mass evictions and average rent increases of more than 50 percent over a span of only four years.”
The Planning Board stopped short of recommending the city enact rent controls Monday, instead voting 4-3 to ask the City Council to consider setting up a task force to study whether people are being displaced by rising rents.
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