With escalating rents in the Bay area, more Oakland tenants are being forced out of their homes to make way for renters who can afford to pay market rates. Some of this "force" is coming from landlord harassment which has risen to the attention of Oakland's city council who, in 2014, enacted an ordinance to protect tenants from harassing behavior.
Oakland has a Tenant Protection Ordinance (“TPO”) to deter harassing behaviors by landlords and to give tenants legal recourse in instances where they are subjected to harassing behavior by landlords (O.M.C.8.22.600). (City Council Ordinance No. 13265 C.M.S.)
While most landlords do not, or would not, deliberately harass their tenants, for those that do, a violator can be taken to task by the City Attorney's office or pursued in civil court by the tenant.
The Tenant Protection Ordinance requires Owners to post a notice of the TPO in rental units located in a building with an interior common area such as a laundry room or lobby area.
The notice must be placed in at least one such common area in the building on the form prescribed by the City Staff.
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