Statewide Residential Eviction Moratorium Ends But Not Oakland’s Eviction Moratorium

Oakland, CA – On September 30 2021, the State of California’s Rent Eviction Moratorium ends. This end day has nary interaction connected the City of Oakland. Oakland’s moratorium connected evictions and rent increases will continue until the Local Emergency is terminated by Oakland City Council.

Got Rent Problems? 
Tenants and spot owners successful request of fiscal assistance for past owed rent whitethorn beryllium eligible for the Emergency Rent Assistance Program. Oakland residents in request of assistance paying rent and spot owners whose tenants have refused to use for rental assistance are encouraged to use for exigency rental assistance (see below).  

Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP): 
Since the autumn of 2020, Oakland has tally and expanded its exigency rental assistance programs successful the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. These programs person been successfully administered by the City via Keep Oakland Housed (KOH), a collaboration of four non-profit partners – Bay Area Community Services (BACS), Catholic Charities East Bay, Centro Legal de la Raza, and the Eviction Defense Center, Safe Passages. In July, the City added 5 caller assemblage partners – East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation (EBALDC), Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), Housing and Economics Rights Advocates (HERA), and East Oakland Community Development Corp. (EODC) – bringing the full fig of partners to nine, to code expanded request and capacity.   

Apply: 

• Tenants: visit www.hpp.bayareacs.org or telephone (510) 899-9289 
   
• Property owners: visit bit.ly/Oakland-rent-help or telephone (510) 238-6182  
   
• General questions: email housingassistance@oakland.gov  

Application assistance and translation services are available.  

Effects of the Governor’s Eviction Moratorium ending include: 

• Rental spot owners may be eligible for 100% rent indebtedness alleviation accrued after April 1, 2020. Any proprietor who already received assistance astatine the 80% rate may get the remaining 20% from the state’s program. Makes tenants, whose landlord does not use connected their own, eligible for 100% of their rent owed since April 2020. 

• Property owners may receive 100% adjacent for tenants who person moved out. 

• After Sept 30, owners indispensable question rental assistance from a designated program and springiness eligible tenants the accidental to question assistance earlier eviction (see above). 

Oakland Commercial Eviction Moratorium will end: 

The Oakland City Ordinances connected the local commercial eviction moratorium conformed with the Governor’s most caller Executive Order, expiring today, September 30, 2021. The protections that prevent commercial evictions of tiny businesses and non-profit organizations for nonpayment of rent volition extremity on September 30^th . Back rent whitethorn beryllium owed successful afloat depending connected the outgo program oregon different statement negotiated betwixt the tenant and landlord. Find disposable resources at: https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/coronavirus-2019-covid-19-business-and-worker-resources#eviction-moratorium

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