Oakland Landlord Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest COVID Eviction Moratorium

Dozens of people hold up signs protesting against an eviction moratorium while a property owner sitting in a wheelchair continues his hunger strike in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 26, 2023. Xue Mingzhu/The Epoch Times

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.