City of Emeryville
The following is a brief overview of the tenant protections available in this city. For more details please refer to the ordinance itself and any other resourced linked below.
Overview
What tenant protections does the city have?
Just Cause for Evictions
Who enforces the tenant protections?
Emeryville has contracted with ECHO Housing to provide fair housing, tenant eviction and landlord mediation assistance. Call 510-581-9380 for assistance and click the logo for more information.
When were these protections adopted and most recently updated?
Adopted: 2017
Updated: 2020
Rent Stabilization
Exemptions
How much can rent be increased and how often?
Is banking allowed?
Are passthroughs or additional costs allowed (pets, utilities, parking, etc)?
Eviction Protections
Exemptions
Dwelling units in hotels, motels, and short-term rentals so long as the tenant(s) in a given dwelling unit do not reside in that unit for more than thirty (30) consecutive days
The entirety of a single owner-occupied residence, when the owner-occupant rents or leases two (2) or fewer bedrooms to one (1) or more lodgers
Dwelling units in nonprofit cooperatives owned, occupied, and controlled by a majority of the residents
Each dwelling unit where the rent is controlled, regulated, or restricted by a State or Federal government unit, agency, or authority, when the control, regulation, or restriction would preempt local regulation of landlord and tenant relations
Housing accommodations in any nonprofit hospital, convent, monastery, extended care facility, asylum, residential care or adult day health care facility for the elderly which must be operated pursuant to a license issued by the California Department of Social Services
Housing units owned by any government unit, agency, or authority, including but not limited to any division or department of a local, State, or Federal government
Under what circumstances is the landlord obligated to pay relocation assistance to tenant?
When a landlord terminates a tenancy through a no fault termination, the tenant(s) will be entitled to receive relocation assistance, unless the cause was a natural disaster or other naturally occurring phenomenon beyond the control of the landlord, such as an earthquake, fire, or flood. Landlord must deliver the relocation assistance to the tenant(s) by the last day of tenancy for which the landlord has received rent
Small Landlord (Owns 4 or less covered units): Must pay 1 times the most current FMR or one month of rent that tenant is paying, whichever is GREATER
Large Landlords (Owns more than 4 covered units): Must pay 5 times the most current FMR or 4 times the monthly rent that the tenant is paying, whichever is GREATER
Large Landlords are subject to exemptions to providing relocation assistance: Large Landlord owns every Covered Unit in one building may request an exemption from the obligation to provide Relocation Assistance to the tenants in each Covered Unit in the building if the provision of Relocation Assistance to the tenants in each Covered Unit in the building would deprive the Large Landlord of a fair return.
More about this in:
Eviction and Harassment Protection Ordinance Emeryville