Berkeley landlords throw party to celebrate restarting evictions
www.sfgate.com
Berkeley landlords are celebrating the end of city's moratorium on evictions with a cocktail party and networking event.

In a move that critics are calling “one of the most tasteless events I’ve ever heard of,” Berkeley landlords are celebrating the end of eviction protections in the East Bay city with a cocktail party.

The Berkeley Property Owners Association, a trade group for rental property owners in Berkeley, apparently believes regaining the right to throw people out of their homes is cause for celebration — or at least a networking event. The “Fall Social Mixer: Celebrating the End of the Eviction Moratorium” is set for the evening of Sept. 12; the event was first spotted by Berkeleyside.

Berkeley, like many other Bay Area municipalities, began a moratorium on most evictions at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The moratorium lasted over three years but expired on Sept. 1, 2023.

  • Neato@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I wonder if these land-holders live in an HOA. And if they do, I’m sure they’re in violation of something. Racking up fines they aren’t told about. Their HOA contract gets sold to a corporation to manage it. The corporation sees the ludicrous fines and repossesses their house as in the new HOA contract. Evict the land-holders.

    It’s not realistic because rich people don’t have consequences but it’d be a nice sense of justice.