Group Calls For End Of Alameda County Residential Eviction Moratorium

OAKLAND — About 100 people chanted in the rain Tuesday morning to demand an end to Alameda County's residential eviction moratorium, which the Board of Supervisors was set to take up Tuesday afternoon.

The moratorium applies to cities and the unincorporated areas except if the city's moratorium is stronger. Also, if a city's law is stronger for tenants than for homeowners, the county's provisions for homeowners apply.

Jinyu Wu, a San Leandro property owner, started a hunger strike Sunday morning in front of the Alameda County Administration Building, where the Board of Supervisors meet.

Wu is allegedly owed more than $120,000 in unpaid rent. He is demanding an end to the moratorium and for the county to reimburse property owners. Wu blames the elected officials rather than tenants for the problem.

"It's not fair for small housing providers," said Jennifer Liu, president of Business and Housing Network, a nonprofit that represents small property owners and advocates for property rights and housing friendly policies, of the moratorium.

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