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BAY AREA LANDLORDS HAVE A NEW WEAPON IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST TENANT PROTECTIONS —
IDENTITY POLITICS

Soleil Ho
April 19, 2023Updated: April 19, 2023 9:37 a.m.

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East Bay Rental Housing Association CEO Derek Barnes speaks at a protest
calling for the end to COVID tenant protections at Oakland City Hall on April
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In their fight against pandemic-sparked eviction rules and other tenant
protections, Bay Area landlord advocates are wielding an unlikely tool: identity
politics.

Last week, landlord advocacy organizations and lobbyists, including In It
Together, the East Bay Rental Housing Association, and the Business and Housing
Network, demonstrated outside of an Oakland City Council meeting to demand an
immediate end to the pandemic-era eviction moratorium and just cause eviction
laws. At the rally and during the council meeting’s public comment period,
self-identified landlords repeatedly claimed that the eviction restrictions were
a matter of social justice, but in a different way than one might expect.

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Since 2019, Soleil Ho has been The Chronicle’s Restaurant Critic, spearheading
Bay Area restaurant recommendations through the flagship Top Restaurants series.
In 2022, they won a Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award from
the James Beard Foundation.

Ho also writes features and cultural commentary, specializing in the ways that
our food reflects the way we live. Their essay on pandemic fine dining domes was
featured in the 2021 Best American Food Writing anthology. Ho also hosts The
Chronicle’s food podcast, Extra Spicy, and has a weekly newsletter called Bite
Curious.

Previously, Ho worked as a freelance food and pop culture writer, as a podcast
producer on the Racist Sandwich, and as a restaurant chef. Illustration courtesy
of Wendy Xu.

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