This section houses newsletters and select articles—including President’s Messages and guest-written editorials—from BPOA’s archive dating back to 2008. Explore past issues to see how Berkeley’s rental housing landscape has evolved.
Inside this issue: Seattle Rent Control Debate; Healdsburg OKs Rent Increase Guidelines; Balcony Collapse Spurs Criticism; California Has Big Housing Shortage; Water Fines; Smoke Detectors; Sale per Square Foot; Rent Control Causes Problems; September Workshop Invitation; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Casting a Wider Net; Housing Gains Undercut by Losses; Low Cost Housing Mandates Upheld; Here and There (and Everywhere); Rent Control in Richmond; Member Meeting and Workshop; Sweeping Changes to Rein in NYC Rents; September Members Meeting; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Announcing the Formation of the Berkeley Rental Housing Coalition Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Berkeley Residents Grapple with Boom; Move Out 2015; San Mateo County to Study Rent Control; Bill to Restrict Ellis Act; San Jose Affordable Housing Legal Test; Middle Class Struggle; Limits on Seattle Micro-Housing; May Workshop; Move Out Flyer; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Michael St. John Fighting with Tenants; Fee for Affordable Housing; Rent Survey Report; Happy Neighbors and New UC Hires; Landlords Sue over SF Buy-Out Law; Residents Priced Out of Homes; UC Campus Housing Amongst Highest; Tenant Legislation to Watch in 2015; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Michael St. Johm Perspective; Rent Limits Protect Child; El Cerrito Studies Rules Protecting Renters; Los Angeles Retrofit Plan; Landmark Tenant Eviction Case; Owners of SF Unit Unable to Move Back Home; Tenant Legislation to Watch in 2015; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Energy Audit; Bay Area Rents Higher; Housing Bias Concern; Illegal Re-Rentals; California's Pension Liability; We're in the Wrong Business; Meeting and Workshop Information; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Fraud in High Places; Rent Control Beefs Where Tenants Gane Landlord; Appliances Go Missing; The Abandoned Rental Unit; Makes You Go Hmmmmm; Meeting and Workshop Information; LA Story: The Mayor & Mandatory Retrofitting; Berkeley Rent Board and the Oil Train; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Democracy in Berkeley; Anti Speculation Tax; Oakland Outpaces San Francisco; Oakland Tenant Protections; A Trifecta from BPOA Member; Winter Dinner Invitation; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: No to No Pets; Section 8 Update; Rent Control in Marin?; A Letter on the Downtown Measure R; SF Fights the Ellis; A Knife to the Heart; Follow-Up on the SF Ellis Pacific Legal Foundation; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: A Cautionary Tale; To Refi or Not Refi; EBMUD Tips; Alameda; Audit Finds Flaws; SF Judge Denies Restraining Order; Remedies to Rental Shortage; SF Housing Crisis; Add Units with Seismic Work; Affordable Units Protected; and more... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Tenant Scams; Decision on Earthquake Liability; Airbnb Squatter; Poor Doors in West Hollywood; PFL Takes Landlord Case; SF Landlords Sue Over Relocation Fees; New Grand Jury Investigation; and more... Continue Reading
