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Consider Adopting an Urgency Ordinance to Remove Certain Grounds for Just Cause Evictions by Amending Ordinance No. 3140, an Urgency Ordinance of the City of Alameda Imposing within the City of Alameda a Temporary (65-Day) Moratorium on Certain Residential Rent Increases and on Evictions from all Residential Rental Units Except for Just Cause Evictions. [Requires four affirmative votes] (City Manager 2110)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Elizabeth D. Warmerdam, Interim City Manager
Re: Consider Adopting an Urgency Ordinance to Remove Certain Grounds for Just Cause evictions by Amending Ordinance No. 3140, an Urgency Ordinance of the City of Alameda Imposing within the City of Alameda a Temporary (65-Day) Moratorium on Certain Residential Rent Increases and on Evictions from all Residential Rental Units Except for Just Cause Evictions
BACKGROUND
At a special City Council meeting on November 4, 2015, the City Council adopted on November 5, 2015 an urgency ordinance that imposes a 65-day moratorium on residential rent increases at or above 8% for multi-family rental units built prior to February 1995, and evictions from all residential units except for just cause. The moratorium was effective on November 5, 2015, and expires on January 9, 2016, or until it is replaced with permanent legislation, whichever occurs first. The urgency ordinance was supported by findings that demonstrated the urgent need for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety of Alameda residents to stabilize rents and prevent no cause evictions while staff prepares legislation to enact longer-term renter protections for City Council consideration and action.
Exhibit A of the urgency ordinance contains 12 grounds upon which a property owner could serve a notice of termination and/or terminate a tenancy for cause during the moratorium period. These grounds range from non-payment of rent to an owner deciding to go...
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