An Oakland-based mom-and-pop landlord is donating thousands of dollars he raised during a three-day hunger strike this week protesting an Alameda County proposal to extend its COVID eviction moratorium to other distressed small property owners.
George Wu began his protest Feb. 26 at a county administrative building after he said he was struggling to make up for more than $120,000 in unpaid rent from area tenants.
“Our wealth comes from our painstaking labor,” Wu told Epoch Times’ sister television station NTD on Sunday. “I’m not against the government protecting tenants, but the government needs to find the middle ground.”
George Wu protests an eviction moratorium in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 26, 2023. (Xue Mingzhu/The Epoch Times)
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the county’s moratorium has been in effect to protect renters from being evicted due to financial hardship. But some small-scale landlords, like Wu and others that joined him during his protest, are saying enough is enough….