California Tenant Protection Act rent cap (Civ. Code § 1947.12)
Cal. Civ. Code § 1947.12 · CA · low confidence
Over any 12-month period, a landlord cannot raise rent by more than 5% plus the local cost-of-living change, or 10%, whichever is lower. Rent can be raised at most twice in 12 months for the same tenant, and the landlord may set any starting rent for a new tenancy.
Key value 5% + CPI, max 10%
Statewide CA rule; in force (effective 2024-01-01). Coverage depends on facts not in the data: Certificate of occupancy issued within the previous 15 years; Owner is not a REIT or corporation; Owner is not an LLC with a corporate member or mobilehome park management; Tenants were given the required written exemption notice; Owner occupies one unit as principal residence. Assumes affordable_restricted: false (presumed) · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · no subsidy/deed restriction recorded in assessor use code.
Outcomes (13 admissible cases checked, exhaustive):
Next action: Get first certificate-of-occupancy date: City building-department certificate-of-occupancy record (LA: LADBS open data; or a verified record import).
Does not apply to housing under local rent control that restricts annual increases to less than the state cap. The section does not expand or limit local governments' authority to adopt rent controls consistent with Civ. Code § 1954.50 et seq. Effective January 1, 2024 and operative April 1, 2024 (Stats. 2023, ch. 290, SB 567); repealed January 1, 2030.
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Exemptions in the law: Deed-restricted or subsidized affordable housing; dormitories of higher education or K-12 schools; housing under stricter local rent control; housing with a certificate of occupancy issued within the previous 15 years (except mobilehomes); separately alienable property (e.g. single-family homes, condos) whose owner is not a REIT, corporation, LLC with a corporate member or mobilehome park management and where written notice was given; duplex where the owner occupies one unit as principal residence.
Exemption: Deed-restricted or subsidized affordable housing (all of) → false
- falseHousing restricted as affordable or subsidizedFact: false (presumed) · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · no subsidy/deed restriction recorded in assessor use code
Exemption: School dormitories (all of) → false
- falseDormitory owned and operated by a higher-education institution or K-12 schoolFact: multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)
Exemption: Certificate of occupancy within previous 15 years (not mobilehome) (all of) → unknown
- unknownCertificate of occupancy issued within the previous 15 yearsFact: not in data (no year built or certificate-of-occupancy date in data)
- trueNot a mobilehomeFact: multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)
Exemption: Separately alienable property with non-corporate owner and notice (all of) → false
- falseResidential property alienable separate from title to any other dwelling unitFact: multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)
- unknownOwner is not a REIT or corporationFact: not in data (owner names deliberately excluded from sample)
- unknownOwner is not an LLC with a corporate member or mobilehome park managementFact: not in data
- unknownTenants were given the required written exemption noticeFact: not in data
Exemption: Owner-occupied duplex (all of) → false
- falseProperty with two dwelling units in a single structureFact: multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)
- unknownOwner occupies one unit as principal residenceFact: not in data (owner occupancy not in data)
Missing facts that cannot change this answer
- Irrelevant here: exemption "Separately alienable property with non-corporate owner and notice" also requires "Residential property alienable separate from title to any other dwelling unit", which is false (multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)); a conjunction with a false part is false whatever "Owner is not a REIT or corporation" is.
- Irrelevant here: exemption "Separately alienable property with non-corporate owner and notice" also requires "Residential property alienable separate from title to any other dwelling unit", which is false (multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)); a conjunction with a false part is false whatever "Owner is not an LLC with a corporate member or mobilehome park management" is.
- Irrelevant here: exemption "Separately alienable property with non-corporate owner and notice" also requires "Residential property alienable separate from title to any other dwelling unit", which is false (multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)); a conjunction with a false part is false whatever "Tenants were given the required written exemption notice" is.
- Irrelevant here: exemption "Owner-occupied duplex" also requires "Property with two dwelling units in a single structure", which is false (multifamily · SANDAG/SanGIS parcels · use code 14 SANDAG asr_landuse 14-16 (5+ units)); a conjunction with a false part is false whatever "Owner occupies one unit as principal residence" is.