1017. Temporary Housing for Disaster Victims
(A) This regulation is intended to enable landlords to provide emergency
housing to disaster victims, refugees, and tenants displaced by local emergencies
without risk of suffering long-term financial disadvantage and to assist such displaced
persons in finding temporary housing while coping with the effects of the disaster,
refugee crisis, or temporary displacement.
(B) Upon being informed of the following the Board may, by resolution, invoke
the provisions of this regulation; said resolution will remain in effect for six months
unless either rescinded earlier or extended by the Board:
1. A federal, state, or local disaster has been declared by the appropriate
governmental authority and persons displaced by the disaster (”disaster
victims”) may be in need of temporary housing in Berkeley.
2. A refugee crisis has emerged and displaced refugees may be in need of
temporary housing in Berkeley. A refugee, as defined by the United
Nations 1951 Refugee Convention and subsequent Protocol, is a person
with a “well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race,
religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political
opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to
such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or
who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former
habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owning to such
fear, unwilling to return to it.”