Oakland is now one of the few cities left in the region not to have ended its ban; others include Berkeley, San Francisco and San Leandro.
OAKLAND — Despite a protest by unhappy property owners that briefly halted an Oakland City Council meeting Tuesday, the city is not yet willing to end its moratorium on evictions.
Their shouting grew so disruptive that Bas, the council president, asked security to begin escorting the rowdiest participants out of the chamber. Before the meeting, protesters outside City Hall demanded an end to the ban — enacted by cities and counties across the Bay Area in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to prevent tenants who couldn’t pay rent from being kicked out of their homes., said when the meeting eventually resumed. He described how one of his tenants has stopped bothering to pay rent ever since the pandemic struck.
“The economic impacts from COVID have not ended, and the burden of the crisis has not been carried equally,” Shaketa Redden, the executive director of Causa Justa, a group that has fought to keep tenant protections across the region in place.
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