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Berkeley landlord association throws party to celebrate restarting evictions (www.sfgate.com)
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In a move that critics are calling “one of the most tasteless events I’ve ever heard of,” Berkeley landlords are celebrating the end of eviction protections in the East Bay city with a cocktail party.

The Berkeley Property Owners Association, a trade group for rental property owners in Berkeley, apparently believes regaining the right to throw people out of their homes is cause for celebration — or at least a networking event. The “Fall Social Mixer: Celebrating the End of the Eviction Moratorium” is set for the evening of Sept. 12; the event was first spotted by Berkeleyside.

Berkeley, like many other Bay Area municipalities, began a moratorium on most evictions at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The moratorium lasted over three years but expired on Sept. 1, 2023.

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[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 71 points 1 year ago

Stay classy, guys.

I understand that this eviction moratorium was "hard" on these guys.

So hard that they had *checks notes... enough money afterwards to throw a big celebration that the eviction moratorium was finally over.

I understand that not all tenants are great. I've seen the aftermath.

But sorry, this is a business, shitty tenants are literally the risk you're willing to take by choosing to own a rental. Fucking grow a pair, bunch of fucking whiners.

"But we made marginally less money than we would have! We still have enough money to throw a big party about it, though!"

There's tone deaf and there's whatever the fuck this is.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I wanna see a big guy fail catastrophically already ffs.

Back to office? How about you now have to pay for my gas and car. Fuck this shit. Why are we still in a thinly veiled feudal state?

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's funny how much landlords complain about shitty tenants after they took a whole 5 minutes to vet their renter and didn't even meet them to hand over the key.

[-] Hegar@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep, even a shitty tenant's right to have shelter just so obviously outweighs the right for a landlord to profit from them.

There's no such thing as justice in a world with landlords.

[-] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

It's one thing to take a risk of a shitty tenant. It's another to have a shitty tenant who is abusing emergency rules free of consequences.

Some asshole who signs a lease, trashes the place, refuses to pay a dime in rent and then refuses to vacate just ends up getting subsidized by everyone who doesn't do any of that.

I get that landlords aren't the most sympathetic group always but eviction is a necessary legal remedy to keep rental housing affordable and available for responsible people.

Either the courts need to be processing evictions in a timely manner and following the law or landlords need to be able to regain their property by other means. Having the government tell them that they are forced to keep providing services to an abusive tenant who is taking advantage will just force out anyone too small to amortize out that risk to hundreds of other tenants and ensure the entire rental market is owned by faceless investors and giant megacorps and that rental prices will continue to skyrocket.

[-] shortgiraffe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

eviction is a necessary legal remedy to keep rental housing affordable and available for responsible people.

There's more people then houses in the US, so not really. The necessary remedy is making sure everyone only has one.

[-] Cleverdawny@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, there's more houses than people in the US. Are you going to relocate people from vibrant city centers to dying small towns with dilapidated, vacant houses with leaking roofs and bad electricals? Not everyone wants to live in Buttfuck, Kansas

[-] Smite6645@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

I like this quote from a related article:

The group insists on not being referred to as landlords, however, which they consider “slander.” According to the website, “We politely decline the label "landlord" with its pejorative connotations.”...Instead, they prefer to be called “housing providers.”

Don't hurt their feelings now!!

[-] halferect@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That made me nauseous

[-] Neato@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I wonder if these land-holders live in an HOA. And if they do, I'm sure they're in violation of something. Racking up fines they aren't told about. Their HOA contract gets sold to a corporation to manage it. The corporation sees the ludicrous fines and repossesses their house as in the new HOA contract. Evict the land-holders.

It's not realistic because rich people don't have consequences but it'd be a nice sense of justice.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Oh, come on… These are the guys running the HOAs

[-] RagnarokOnline@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

In a move that critics are calling “One of the most tasteless events I’ve ever heard of”

Lol

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It led to protests, chanting, and fights broke out. Yay!

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