ACCE members helped achieve a significant victory through their advocacy at Oakland City Hall, securing important amendments to strengthen tenant protections in the city's Rent Adjustment and Just Cause for Eviction Ordinances. The approved changes, effective December 17, 2024, include several key reforms that enhance accountability for property owners and expand tenant rights. Most notably, the legislation reduces the "banking" period for rent increases from ten to five years and prevents new property owners from using banked increases after property transfers (except in specific inheritance cases). The reforms also create stronger enforcement mechanisms by prohibiting both rent increases and no-fault evictions when property owners are delinquent on their business taxes, requiring proof of current business tax compliance with rent increase notices, and doubling the time tenants have to challenge unlawful rent increases from 90 to 180 days.

These changes represent a substantial win for tenant rights, establishing stronger oversight of property owners and limiting their ability to accumulate and implement delayed rent increases. The reforms particularly target the practice of "banking" rent increases and create new protections against evictions, while also ensuring better transparency through expanded notice requirements and language accessibility in multiple languages including English, Spanish, and Chinese.