OAKLAND — The owners of a vacant West Oakland home must negotiate with the homeless women who moved in without permission last month, or the city may consider seizing the property, a councilwoman’s staffer said Tuesday.
Councilwoman Nikki Fortunato Bas, as well as representatives from the offices of Council President Rebecca Kaplan and Councilman Dan Kalb, called on the owner — real estate investment company Wedgewood — to work out a deal that would allow the women and their allies to buy the home and continue living there.
If Wedgewood refuses, the city will “look at all viable opportunities, including seizure of property,” said Kaplan’s policy director, Bobbi Lopez.
A Wedgewood spokesman said that threat shows “reckless disregard for the law.”
“That would be a level of lawlessness that no one would expect out of an elected official in Oakland, or any other American city,” said Sam Singer, who is handling public relations for the real estate investment company.
The home at stake is a three-bedroom house on Magnolia Street. A group of homeless women and their children moved in, without permission, last month. About three weeks later, Wedgewood served the women, who have formed an organization called Moms 4 Housing, with an eviction notice.
The women challenged the eviction in Alameda County Superior Court. In a tentative ruling, Judge Patrick McKinney found “the claims do not appear to provide a basis for a valid claim of right to possession, and instead contend only that the claimants have a right to occupy the subject premise.” But the judge invited the women to provide evidence that they have a right to occupy the house at a hearing to be held Thursday.
They should be hauled out and thrown in jail. If for no other reason than to bring attention to the intentionally lack of housing supply. It would help if one of them get's shot by a Muslim Cop with a short fuse in the process.
I look forward to further acts of Great Socialist Paradise dictatorship activity. California is already an arrogant scofflaw. If the so called government does not follow the laws, and has decided that any sort of seizure or re-appropriation is 'justified' by marginal or un-lawful means, then the sky is the limit.
If there's a jury trial in Oak-Town, I hope the jury knows about the concept, that's been backed up more than once by the Supreme Court, of Jury Nullification.
Councilwoman Nikki Fortunato Bas, as well as representatives from the offices of Council President Rebecca Kaplan and Councilman Dan Kalb, called on the owner — real estate investment company Wedgewood — to work out a deal that would allow the women and their allies to buy the home and continue living there.
If Wedgewood refuses, the city will “look at all viable opportunities, including seizure of property,” said Kaplan’s policy director, Bobbi Lopez.
A Wedgewood spokesman said that threat shows “reckless disregard for the law.”
“That would be a level of lawlessness that no one would expect out of an elected official in Oakland, or any other American city,” said Sam Singer, who is handling public relations for the real estate investment company.
The home at stake is a three-bedroom house on Magnolia Street. A group of homeless women and their children moved in, without permission, last month. About three weeks later, Wedgewood served the women, who have formed an organization called Moms 4 Housing, with an eviction notice.
The women challenged the eviction in Alameda County Superior Court. In a tentative ruling, Judge Patrick McKinney found “the claims do not appear to provide a basis for a valid claim of right to possession, and instead contend only that the claimants have a right to occupy the subject premise.” But the judge invited the women to provide evidence that they have a right to occupy the house at a hearing to be held Thursday.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2019/12/24/oakland-official-threatens-to-seize-moms-4-housing-home/