If you are a tenant and feel like you are being unfairly evicted and/or your eviction notice is in violation of the eviction moratorium, please call Bay Area Legal Aid (BALA) at 800- 551-5554 and ECHO Housing at 510-581-9380 or 855- ASK-ECHO.
In Contra Costa County, the median income for a family of four is $147,900/year (as of June 2023). Here are examples of who needs affordable housing: ➢ A single person earning $24/hour ($50,000/year) would be considered Very Low-Income at 50% of the area median income or AMI.
If you are a tenant and feel like you are being unfairly evicted and/or your eviction notice is in violation of the eviction moratorium, please call Bay Area Legal Aid (BALA) at 800- 551-5554 and ECHO Housing at 510-581-9380 or 855- ASK-ECHO.
If your tenant won't fix the problem or move out, you'll have to go through the court to get an order for them to move out. The eviction process can take 30 - 45 days, or longer. The time starts from when you have eviction court forms delivered to your tenant to the time they must move out.
The Ellis Act is a 1985 California state law that allows landlords to evict residential tenants to “go out of the rental business.” In California, landlords (big and small) can choose to go out of the rental business and evict tenants.
Ask for more time to move. If you lose your eviction case, you need to move out (at the latest) 5 days after the sheriff posts a Notice to Vacate on your door. If you need more time to move, you can ask the court for a stay of execution. You will need to show the court that you have a good reason for needing more time.
If you have applied to Housing Choice Voucher or Project Based Voucher waitlists and cannot find the answer to your question on the Applicant Portal, please call 925-957-7085 or email us at ie@contracostahousing.
Extremely low-income households are defined as households earning 30 percent or less of area median income (AMI) ; very-low income households earn 50 percent or less AMI; low-income households earn 80 percent or less AMI subject to HUD caps; and median income households earn 100 percent AMI.