A group of Alameda County rental home owners and the association representing landlords throughout California are fighting to keep alive their claims the county violated their constitutional property rights by keeping an unprecedented Covid pandemic evictions ban in place long after any health emergency had ended, illegally allowing tenants to live rent free for three years and costing the owners hundreds of thousands of dollars each.
On July 14, attorneys for the California Apartments Association and a group of individual rental property owners filed their latest brief in San Francisco federal court, responding to the attempt by Alameda County to dismiss their lawsuit.
In the filing, the landlords urged U.S. District Judge Laurel Beeler to reject the county’s contention that a three-year long “moratorium” on nearly all evictions, for any reason, amounted to “reasonable expectations” and should simply be chalked up to the cost of doing business for the owners of apartments, condominiums and other rental homes.
“Just as ‘reasonable expectations’ do not include ‘starry-eyed hope of winning the jackpot,’ neither do they encompass the remote possibility that a landlord may be deprived of rent altogether, without any realistic remedy, and in particular that such a deprivation will last three full years,” the landlords and CAA wrote in their brief.
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Author: Faith Novak
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