"Around 50 people gathered at Oakland City Hall on Tuesday to demand that the city address code infractions in various buildings across the city by fully funding Oakland's Proactive Rental Inspection Program.
The protest came just before the Oakland City Council's Community and Economic Development Committee was set to vote on its annual housing action plan, a report that requests funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development toward various grant programs.
"For far too long, landlords have been allowed to have inhabitable conditions within their apartment buildings, leaving tenants with concerns around their own health and their own family stability," said Valarie Bachelor, Oakland director for Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment. "This is completely unacceptable, and we demand change." "
