The Alameda City Council held a debate this week on instituting rent control. Implementing rent control ordinances is becoming an increasingly popular idea in many Bay Area Cities (with some cities joining the ranks and others deferring on the issue).
The Alameda City Council decided to implement a moratorium on rent increases and evictions without just cause for 65 days, during which they will presumably be evaluating the effects on a city whose rents have increased 54% from 2000 to 2013, while its median household incomes for these renters have only increased by 29%.
The San Francisco Business Times reports that a man who attended the meeting to support tenants “became rowdy” (perhaps hoping for a longer term solution), received a bloody nose and had to be arrested. Landlord-tenant law in the Bay Area is a full-contact sport, apparently.
