Oakland Mun. Code Chapter 8.22 § 8.22.300

Whereas, the laws of the State of California and the Housing Element of the General Plan of the city of Oakland prohibit arbitrary discrimination by landlords, and
Whereas, the right to occupancy of safe, decent, and sanitary housing is a human right, and
Whereas, the city of Oakland's prolonged affordable housing crisis disproportionately impacts low income and working class households, senior citizens, people of color, and people with disabilities, and thereby increases homelessness and crime, harms neighborhood stability and cohesion, and damages business prospects for small businesses, and
Whereas, recent state laws that eliminate limits on rent increases upon the vacation of rental units provide added economic incentive to evict tenants, such that the number of no cause evictions has increased markedly in recent years, and
Whereas, the absence of a local law prohibiting a landlord from evicting a tenant without good cause is a significant barrier to implementation and enforcement of the Oakland Residential Rent Arbitration Ordinance, and
Whereas, residential tenants, who constitute approximately sixty-five percent (65%) of the residents of Oakland, suffer great and serious hardship when forced to move from their homes, and
Whereas, basic fairness requires that a landlord must not terminate the tenancy of a residential tenant without good, just, non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory reasons, and
Whereas, the good cause eviction protections enacted in San Francisco, Berkeley, Hayward, and other California cities, have aided community stability and reduced urban problems associated with arbitrary disruption of stable households, and
Whereas, the general welfare of all citizens of Oakland would be enhanced if no cause evictions were prohibited,
Therefore, the electorate of the city of Oakland hereby enacts this ordinance, prohibiting a landlord from terminating a tenancy without good or just cause.