"Insult has been added to injury for the estimated 200 people who were displaced by Monday morning's apartment fire in Oakland's Uptown, after their landlord issued them all eviction letters. You may recall the early morning apartment fire in Oakland's Uptown neighborhood at 19th Street and Broadway on Monday of this week, which also damaged the ground-floor Dope Era clothing store owned by local hip-hop icon Mistah F.A.B."
"Displaced residents of a downtown Oakland apartment building say they are facing "greater confusion" after receiving letters terminating their leases just hours after a massive fire swept through the complex. https://t.co/ata4TZAlMd KTVU (@KTVU) January 21, 2026 But that same KTVU report also contains some very shocking news about those displaced residents: the displaced residents of those 43 apartment units have all received eviction notices from their landlord,"
An early-morning apartment fire in Oakland's Uptown displaced an estimated 200 people and damaged the ground-floor Dope Era clothing store owned by Mistah F.A.B. Three residents were hospitalized for smoke inhalation and one firefighter treated for minor injuries; all have since recovered. The building has been red-tagged. Despite displacement, the landlord issued eviction notices terminating all leases and promising security deposit refunds after retrieval of belongings and key returns. Legal experts state that red-tagging and a fire do not automatically justify eviction for tenants current on rent. The landlord may owe relocation payments depending on the fire's cause.
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