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This article explores Berkeley’s Exterior Elevated Elements Inspection Program requirements, inspection standards, and how to ensure compliance before the deadline. Click here to visit the Network of E3 Professionals Continue Reading
This issue contains a front-page typo. AUG should be SEPT. Who's Moving to Oakland and Why; NorCal Rents: Where They're At, and Going; Who's Behind Proposition 21?; Impact of Pandemic on Small Landlords; About Those Rental Housing Safety Inspections; Monthly Zoom information for September; ... Continue Reading
In this issue: Rents Drop, But It's Not Just the Pandemic; Berkeley Holds Steady as Rents Fall; Renters Brace for Evictions as Moratoria End; Oakland Passes New Tenant Protections; Council Fails to Vote on Golden Duplexes; Financial Help for Berkeley Renters Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Many SF Tenants Breaking Leases; More Protection for Oakland Renters?; L.A. Challenged on Eviction Ban & Rent Freeze; S.F. Eviction Moratorium Faces Legal Challenge; Falling Rents will Reshape Housing Market; Berkeley Section 8/Subsidized Housing News... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Berkeley Rent Board Head to Retire; Rent Board Targets Golden Duplexes & ADUs; Rent Payments Grew in May; CA Eviction Ban Q&A; UC Campuses to be Open in the Fall; Berkeley's 90 Million Dollar Cushion; Monthly Meeting Info for June... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Coronavirus QA for Renters, Landlords; Third of Renters Fail to Pay April Rent; Proposal: No Rent/Mortgage Payments; Oakland City Council Abuses Powers; Powers & Duties: Rent Stabilization Board; Chart: Rents by Neighborhood; Monthly Meeting Info for May... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: COVID-19, Your Tenants & the Rent; Confessions of a Former Housing Provider; Berkeley Health Directive & ER Ordinance; Berkeley: No More Criminal Background Checks; How Rent & Eviction Laws Aggravate a Crisis; Suggested Tenant Message re: TP; Misplaced Kudos - A Follow-Up... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: SB30: Key Detail Emerges in Mountain View; RIP WB50: Fails by Three Votes; Berkeley's Quest to Create Housing; Berkeley Mayor Announces TOPA; Monthly Meeting Info; Important Changes to Our Meeting Schedule... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: The Bill That Could Make CA Liveable; A Rent Control Repeal Lesson from the 90s; Housing the Homeless 4.0; Chart: Average Rent by East Bay City; Up, Down, Maybe Sideways; Monthly Meeting Info; Important Changes to Our Meeting Schedule... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Berkeley & BART Housing Agreement; Riding California's Rent Control Wave; Oakland Housing Fee Leads Nowhere; Oakland Condo Conversion Changes?; Sid Lakireddy on the Coming Year; Santa Monica Weighs Renter Right to Counsel; 2019 Legislative Wins; Monthly Meeting Info... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Seattle's Dirst-In-Line law Upheld; Governor to Sign Rent-Cap Bill; Berkeley Might Ban Background Checks; Announcing the 2019 Holiday Dinner!; CA Restaurant Assc. Sues Berkeley Over Gas; Link to NOLO Discussion of New Rent Law; Monthly Meeting Info... Continue Reading
Inside this issue: Long Beach, Gov. Newsom Name in Lawsuit; New Laws Should Ease Building; Five Things to Know About the TP Act; Facebook Pledges $1 Billion Towards Housing; Fixing the Problem is Like Whack-a-Mole; Announcing the 2019 Holiday Dinner; Monthly Meeting Info... Continue Reading
