How Do I Determine if My Building is Covered by AB 1482 or Rent Control?

The "techies" have gotten together with ACCE and other tenant's rights organizations to form tenantprotections.org. They have created a slick tool to help tenants learn if they are covered by the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (otherwise known as AB 1482) or rent control.

See: https://tenantprotections.org/

By answering several questions, the tool will either answer your question about coverage under AB 1482 OR whether you may be covered by rent control and point you to tenants' rights organizations to help provide further guidance.

As it pertains to both AB 1482 and rent control, the year the building that you live in was built is one of the establishing factors. To discover when the building was built, you can search for the buidling address and companies like Zillow or Trulia may have that information. Or, contact the building records division in your city to establish when the building was issued a "certificate of occupancy." This certificate is issued by building inspection and certifies that the building is ready for occupany. If a certificate of occupancy was not issued, ask if the building received a "final permit" and when.

Tenantprotections.org is a collaborative project between various California non-profits, and volunteers including: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Code for San Francisco / Code For America, and TechEquity Collaborative.

Learn All About It - Oakland's New Rent Registry Program

Atttend the Oakland Rent Registration Workshop to better understand these new requirements for your landlord. Once the registry is established, it would be prudent for tenants to check the information submitted by your landlord to ensure that 1) your unit is registered, and 2) that the informaiton is correct.

The first workshop is on Oct. 19, 2022 via Zoom and begins at 5:30 p.m.

See: https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/rent-registration-in-oakland-information-and-faqs

Just Who Owns My Rental Property? The San Francisco Chronicle Introduces a New Tool to Help Answer that Question.

Discovering who -- or what enttity - owns your rental property can be challenging. The San Francisco Chronicle developed this helpful tool to assist you to discover the property owner. 

This map reveals who owns every property in the S.F. Bay Area

Data is current through the 2020-2021 fiscal year, thus, if there was a property sale since then, the information may not be current.

Oakland's Rent Board Holds a Tenant's Rights Workshop on Sept. 14, 2022 - Come one, come all!

 

WHY CAN'T WE AFFORD TO LIVE IN OUR CITIES?

A documentary film by an award-winning Swedish filmmaker, Fredrik Gertten explores why renters across the globe are being pushed out of rental housing through corporate investment and unaffordable rent in a film called "PUSH." For a special viewing, ACCE and the Oakland Tenants Union are sponsoring a showing at the Grand Lake Theater on Sept. 20, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.