The Berkeley Property Owners Association’s fall mixer is called “Celebrating the End of the Eviction Moratorium.”


A group of Berkeley, California landlords will hold a fun social mixer over cocktails to celebrate their newfound ability to kick people out of their homes for nonpayment of rent, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

The Berkeley Property Owner Association lists a fall mixer on its website on Tuesday, September 12, 530 PM PST. “We will celebrate the end of the Eviction Moratorium and talk about what’s upcoming through the end of the year,” the invitation reads. The event advertises one free drink and “a lovely selection of appetizers,” and encourages attendees to “join us around the fire pits, under the heat lamps and stars, enjoying good food, drink, and friends.”

The venue will ironically be held at a space called “Freehouse”, according to its website. Attendees who want to join in can RSVP on their website for $20.

Berkeley’s eviction moratorium lasted from March 2020 to August 31, 2023, according to the city’s Rent Board, during which time tenants could not be legally removed from their homes for nonpayment of rent. Landlords could still evict tenants if they had “Good Cause” under city and state law, which includes health and safety violations. Landlords can still not collect back rent from March 2020 to April 2023 through an eviction lawsuit, according to the Rent Board.

Berkeleyside spoke to one landlord planning to attend the eviction moratorium party who was frustrated that they could not evict a tenant—except that they could evict the tenant, who was allegedly a danger to his roommates—but the landlord found the process of proving a health and safety violation too tedious and chose not to pursue it.

The Berkeley Property Owner Association is a landlord group that shares leadership with a lobbying group called the Berkeley Rental Housing Coalition which advocated against a law banning source of income discrimination against Section 8 tenants and other tenant protections.

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.” They also bravely denounce feudalism, an economic system which mostly ended 500 years ago, and say that the current system is quite fair to renters.

“Feudalism was an unfair system in which landlords owned and benefited, and tenant farmers worked and suffered. Our society is entirely different today, and the continued use of the legal term ‘landlord’ is slander against our members and all rental owners.” Instead, they prefer to be called “housing providers.”

While most cities’ eviction moratoria elapsed in 2021 and 2022, a handful of cities in California still barred evictions for non-payment into this year. Alameda County’s eviction moratorium expired in May, Oakland’s expired in July. San Francisco’s moratorium also elapsed at the end of August, but only covered tenants who lost income due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In May, Berkeley’s City Council added $200,000 to the city’s Eviction Defense Funds, money which is paid directly to landlords to pay tenants’ rent arrears, but the city expected those funds to be tapped out by the end of June.


  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    No it’s not. The value of my house has literally nothing to do with how much it cost to build, it’s so wildly disconnected, I used the actual numbers to show you that and you’re still being an insufferable moron about it.

    • @nbafantest
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      -111 year ago

      The value doesn’t matter at all lol

      You’re still paying people for paying the builders lol

      This is quite funny

        • @nbafantest
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          -131 year ago

          Your dad did lol

          I like how you’re becoming increasingly unhinged

            • @nbafantest
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              -131 year ago

              How did he get possession?!! Lmao

              The thing I like about this thread is that it clearly shows how ignorant you are about the modern home building process.

              • @[email protected]
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                51 year ago

                Lol, lmao. I’m a successful wealthy landlord. If I don’t know anything about the construction process it’s because being a landlord has nothing to do with construction you fucking dunce, that’s my whole point. You’re the one who keeps insisting on saying I built the fucking houses myself when I’m telling you definitively that I didnt.

                • @nbafantest
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                  -121 year ago

                  You clearly aren’t

                  And you clearly have never bought a house.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    61 year ago

                    I’ve purchased dozens of properties and inherited dozens more, you’re just jealous of my immense success.

      • @havokdj
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        61 year ago

        Brother, I hope you are aware that you are arguing with one of the most obvious trolls of all time.

        I have to admit, he’s actually pretty good, more comedy than flat out just anger inducing.