The move all but ensures the pandemic tenant protections, among the last anywhere in the Bay Area, will remain in place until the end of April.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday evening declined to hold a much-anticipated review of the county’s ongoing eviction moratorium — a move that all but guarantees the pandemic tenant protections, among the last anywhere in the Bay Area, will remain in place until the end of April.
Supervisors said they aimed to balance the concerns of rental owners exasperated by the nearly three-year eviction ban, and the needs of tenants still reeling from the economic fallout of the pandemic and struggling to afford the region’s high housing costs. They promised to seek out additional resources for both struggling renters and landlords.
One landlord, Jingyu Wu, even began a hunger strike on Sunday. He has set up a canopy tent outside the county’s administration building during daylight hours, holding hand-made signs and calling for an end to the moratorium. He says a tenant in his San Leandro triplex owes over $120,000 in back rent, leaving Wu, who’s in his 50s, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy.
“I have tenants who haven’t paid me for over a year,” Perez said outside the board chambers. “I’m going through hard times. And I want them to stop this moratorium because my whole family is suffering.” At the urging of landlords who opposed the regulations, supervisors took the somewhat rare move of sending the ordinances back for significant revisions after the board had already approved them in anThe makeup of the board has changed since that earlier vote. Newly elected Supervisor Lena Tam, who with other members abstained from voting on the three measures, took her seat this year.
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