Thousands of California’s most vulnerable tenants are being evicted under a state law known as the Ellis Act. These are long-term tenants, many of whom are senior or disabled. The evictions are primarily done by real estate investment companies that care nothing about the people they displace. Their goal is to flip the units for short term profits.
Tenants are innocent victims of these outrageous evictions. They pay their rent and take care of their homes for years, just to get kicked to the curb. Under the Ellis Act, these investors can evict tenants for no reason at all.
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The Ellis Act was created so that long-time landlords could retire from the rental business. For the first ten years, the Act was rarely used, but then real estate speculators discovered the Act and began using it as a loophole for mass evictions. Eviction rates have tripled in the last year alone.
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Will you join us in condemning these unfair evictions by real estate speculators? Demand reform of the Ellis Act today.
