There are serious concerns that this legislation will adversely affect single-family homeowners living in their homes who want to rent to a roommate or want to rent their entire home or ADU temporarily. How exactly will this law be applied to these homeowners? If this is a misinterpretation, where are the protections for these homeowners stated?
I am a senior resident in Oakland and own a duplex. I rent the upstairs unit. I live in the downstairs unit. I hear my tenants as they walk and talk and can't imagine my tenants moving in additional people into the upstairs unit. Disregarding the noise, the wear and tear on the unit would be tremendous and there is no way that I could recover this cost. I still have a 30 yr mortgage and depend on the rent to pay that mortgage.These buildings are old and require expensive repairs to keep them habitable.
Can you imagine what it would be like for you if you owned a building and had people living upstairs and there is nothing you could do it they were noisy or abusive. What about insurance, how would I explain to my insurance company that I have people living in my unit and I do not know who they are. I am being abused by the Oakland City Council if you pass this. At one time I was seriously thinking of putting in another unit in my unfinished basement as housing is needed. Today I cannot even consider building that extra unit because of your unfair practices of punishing good and fair housing providers. Ironically I don't have problems with my tenants. I have problems with your proposals that are outrageous, abusive, illegal and unfair. I sincerely hope that you reconsider what is workable and fair.
Imagine if you couldn’t control who was going to live in your home with you? Imagine not being able to determine the number of these people or have the ability to ask them to leave.
Sound good to you? To me it’s a nightmare.
These ordinances are pushing small providers to the limits.
I am being forced to re-examine my intention to open up my large home which was my plan. This
ordinance also forces me to re evaluate my boundaries with my existing tenants. Instead of the relaxed relationship I have
developed, I am now motivated to view them as potential adversaries.
These attacks on my personal place of residence are not being taken lightly. I want to ask the sane members of this council to think twice about this one! You are minting discourse between otherwise solid tenant owner relationships AND- you are losing housing as a result. Losing housing! If this passes I will do everything I can to get out of business in Oakland.
How can this be productive??
The TPO amendments have 64 changes hiding some significant and drastic policies that will do irreversible harm to Oakland.
1. For many Oaklanders who rely on renting out a room in their home to make the mortgage, the TPO amendments will stop them from having a say in who can move into their home or be around their kids. Part of our basic privacy and property rights should be who we keep company or commune with on a daily basis in our homes — these changes unreasonably go too far.
2. A housemate can add another housemate who turns out to be difficult and it’s basically impossible to ask them to leave your home — you are married for life and you have no say in screening!
3. The amendments allow for someone to move out, re-rent to a stranger without your vetting, and re-rent for a profit above and over original rent, including AirBNB to a string of strangers. The strangers could destroy the home, the original tenant can profit by charging higher rent while the owner is stuck with original rent tied to inflation.
4. These extreme, radical and unbalanced approach will displace many elderly and minority Oaklanders who are barely getting by and struggling to make ends meet in retirement, even renting out rooms in their homes.
Please be a voice of reason and basic fairness for struggling Oaklanders.
Each member of the council been sent proposed changes to this proposed change in law. relating to homeowners who provide housing of no more than 3 units on their home parcel. They are in form as much as I am able, as requested by councilperson Dan Kalb at the last meeting on this issue, who said that would needed so changes could be considered. In main, these changes will allow homeowners to limit number of tenants, allow or deny subleasing, and have the right to approve any additional tenants prior to move in. Tenants rights are important, but where the tenant is sharing the same parcel, quality of life for the homeowner is important too. If the council wants people to add in-law units (and you say you do) don't make it so homeowners wonder why they would ever put themselves in that position.
Causa Justa :: Just Cause supports the passage of all the tenant ordinances as they are and ask councilmembers to not ammend to weaken them, thus remove protections. We are seeing the devastating impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic on our community and these upgrades to the ordinances are needed now more than ever for the welfare of Oakland tenants. Our clients and members are families, elders, Black & Latinx and would benefit greatly from strengthening of the TPO. The aftermath of COVID-19 will worsen Oakland’s housing crisis and we must protect tenants from bad acting landlords who take advantage of tenants. These new amendments will strengthen the Tenant Protection Ordinance by closing existing loopholes in the law that some landlords are exploiting to harass and retaliate against tenants. We URGE City Council to keep Oakland all residents safe and housed.
There are serious concerns that this legislation will adversely affect single-family homeowners living in their homes who want to rent to a roommate or want to rent their entire home or ADU temporarily. How exactly will this law be applied to these homeowners? If this is a misinterpretation, where are the protections for these homeowners stated?
I am a senior resident in Oakland and own a duplex. I rent the upstairs unit. I live in the downstairs unit. I hear my tenants as they walk and talk and can't imagine my tenants moving in additional people into the upstairs unit. Disregarding the noise, the wear and tear on the unit would be tremendous and there is no way that I could recover this cost. I still have a 30 yr mortgage and depend on the rent to pay that mortgage.These buildings are old and require expensive repairs to keep them habitable.
Can you imagine what it would be like for you if you owned a building and had people living upstairs and there is nothing you could do it they were noisy or abusive. What about insurance, how would I explain to my insurance company that I have people living in my unit and I do not know who they are. I am being abused by the Oakland City Council if you pass this. At one time I was seriously thinking of putting in another unit in my unfinished basement as housing is needed. Today I cannot even consider building that extra unit because of your unfair practices of punishing good and fair housing providers. Ironically I don't have problems with my tenants. I have problems with your proposals that are outrageous, abusive, illegal and unfair. I sincerely hope that you reconsider what is workable and fair.
Imagine if you couldn’t control who was going to live in your home with you? Imagine not being able to determine the number of these people or have the ability to ask them to leave.
Sound good to you? To me it’s a nightmare.
These ordinances are pushing small providers to the limits.
I am being forced to re-examine my intention to open up my large home which was my plan. This
ordinance also forces me to re evaluate my boundaries with my existing tenants. Instead of the relaxed relationship I have
developed, I am now motivated to view them as potential adversaries.
These attacks on my personal place of residence are not being taken lightly. I want to ask the sane members of this council to think twice about this one! You are minting discourse between otherwise solid tenant owner relationships AND- you are losing housing as a result. Losing housing! If this passes I will do everything I can to get out of business in Oakland.
How can this be productive??
The TPO amendments have 64 changes hiding some significant and drastic policies that will do irreversible harm to Oakland.
1. For many Oaklanders who rely on renting out a room in their home to make the mortgage, the TPO amendments will stop them from having a say in who can move into their home or be around their kids. Part of our basic privacy and property rights should be who we keep company or commune with on a daily basis in our homes — these changes unreasonably go too far.
2. A housemate can add another housemate who turns out to be difficult and it’s basically impossible to ask them to leave your home — you are married for life and you have no say in screening!
3. The amendments allow for someone to move out, re-rent to a stranger without your vetting, and re-rent for a profit above and over original rent, including AirBNB to a string of strangers. The strangers could destroy the home, the original tenant can profit by charging higher rent while the owner is stuck with original rent tied to inflation.
4. These extreme, radical and unbalanced approach will displace many elderly and minority Oaklanders who are barely getting by and struggling to make ends meet in retirement, even renting out rooms in their homes.
Please be a voice of reason and basic fairness for struggling Oaklanders.
Each member of the council been sent proposed changes to this proposed change in law. relating to homeowners who provide housing of no more than 3 units on their home parcel. They are in form as much as I am able, as requested by councilperson Dan Kalb at the last meeting on this issue, who said that would needed so changes could be considered. In main, these changes will allow homeowners to limit number of tenants, allow or deny subleasing, and have the right to approve any additional tenants prior to move in. Tenants rights are important, but where the tenant is sharing the same parcel, quality of life for the homeowner is important too. If the council wants people to add in-law units (and you say you do) don't make it so homeowners wonder why they would ever put themselves in that position.
Causa Justa :: Just Cause supports the passage of all the tenant ordinances as they are and ask councilmembers to not ammend to weaken them, thus remove protections. We are seeing the devastating impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic on our community and these upgrades to the ordinances are needed now more than ever for the welfare of Oakland tenants. Our clients and members are families, elders, Black & Latinx and would benefit greatly from strengthening of the TPO. The aftermath of COVID-19 will worsen Oakland’s housing crisis and we must protect tenants from bad acting landlords who take advantage of tenants. These new amendments will strengthen the Tenant Protection Ordinance by closing existing loopholes in the law that some landlords are exploiting to harass and retaliate against tenants. We URGE City Council to keep Oakland all residents safe and housed.