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Tag: Renting in Oakland
A win-win? Free service links up older homeowners with lower-income renters
Operating in Alameda County and beyond, Home Match tries to ease the housing crisis and the epidemic of loneliness.
Oakland has few three-bedroom rentals. Families are feeling the squeeze
Multi-generational households are left with few choices when it comes to size and price. Why isn’t larger housing getting built?
Maps: Where are the cheapest and priciest places to rent in Oakland?
Some East Oakland neighborhoods have the lowest-cost housing, but that doesn’t mean they’re affordable to the people living there.
Oakland renters living in cold and darkness after fire 2 weeks ago
Tenants on 26th Avenue in the San Antonio neighborhood said they’re concerned about conditions as they wait for power and heat to be restored.
What does it actually cost to rent a home in Oakland?
For the first time ever, Oakland is tracking rent prices in a new rental registry. We looked at median costs and the impact of rent control.
Tenants protest no heat, leaks, cockroaches at apartments owned by KP Market grocer
The Uptown renters and landlord will hash it out at a hearing Monday with the city, which has found habitability violations at the property.
Who lives in downtown Oakland’s shiny new apartment towers?
Oakland’s gone through a building boom. How many people are living in this new housing, and what’s life like downtown?
There are 2,600 illegal Airbnbs in Oakland. The city could rein them in
The city is working on regulations for short-term rentals, years in the making.
Oakland Cannery artists are getting squeezed out by the cannabis industry
Residents of one of Oakland’s oldest live-work warehouses are facing an Ellis Act eviction.
Landlord says city is responsible for flood that displaced hundreds of East Oakland tenants
Developer Michael Johnson filed a claim for financial damages, while tenants gathered this week to reflect on eight months of loss, uncertainty, and stress.
Bedbugs, break-ins plague Uptown senior housing, tenants say
Residents and organizers are pushing the city to launch a rental inspection program to catch habitability issues.
At Alameda County eviction court, one judge tries to swim through a tsunami
With pandemic eviction moratoriums over, cases have shot up and the court is overwhelmed. Meet the sole judge handling the influx.
Flooded East Oakland apartment building has cost city $5.7 million
Residents of Coliseum Connections have been uprooted for seven months. They recently protested outside their landlord’s home.
Why we created an affordable housing guide for Oakland and Berkeley
We often hear from residents eager to find an inexpensive, safe place to live in the East Bay. We published a resource guide to help.
Small landlords could get new help in Oakland rent disputes
The East Bay Rental Housing Association would support property owners in Rent Adjustment Program hearings under a new proposal.
Under a new Oakland law, there could be fewer ‘trivial’ evictions
Landlords trying to evict over a lease violation will have to prove that it caused them “substantial actual injury.”
Evictions cases are rising fast after end of Alameda County moratorium
Oakland’s moratorium is still in place but ends in July. Berkeley’s expires Aug. 31.
Oakland’s eviction moratorium will end July 15
At a City Council meeting that lasted until midnight, officials voted to sunset the pandemic policy while adopting new tenant protections.
When to end Oakland’s eviction moratorium? Council will decide Tuesday
Officials will also decide whether to increase the support for displaced Coliseum Connections tenants to $4 million.