Rent strikes, protests pay off: Oakland tenants convince landlord to sell building
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/12/20/rent-strikes-protests-pay-off-oakland-tenants-convince-landlord-to-sell-building/
After more than two years of protesting, rallying and withholding rent payments, a group of Oakland tenants has scored a major victory in the fight to take control of their building.
The property owner has agreed to sell the 14-unit building on 29th Avenue in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood for $3.3 million, according to the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, the tenants’ rights group working with the renters. The building will be purchased by the Oakland Community Land Trust — a nonprofit that buys market-rate properties and converts them into affordable housing.