California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta on Wednesday introduced new client instruments for tenants and landlords to know how a lot hire can rise every year underneath a state hire cap legislation.
The legislation, which took impact in 2020, restricts hire will increase in buildings greater than 15 years previous. Beneath the foundations, hire can rise not more than 5% plus native inflation, with an final cap of 10%.
Nonetheless, till now the state didn’t present a web-based useful resource that stated precisely what the boundaries have been for native areas. Because of this, folks needed to discover that data elsewhere or calculate native limits themselves utilizing authorities inflation figures.
As of Wednesday, landlords and tenants can go to a state web site to study extra about county hire limits, in addition to eviction protections supplied by the hire cap legislation.
Lease limits for particular person counties may be discovered by scrolling all the way down to the part labeled “Know Your Rights as a California Tenant” and clicking on your most well-liked language.
It’s unclear whether or not the state will publish the county limits every year once they change based mostly on inflation knowledge. Bonta’s workplace didn’t reply to a request for remark.
“Info on tenant rights must be accessible, straightforward to know, and out there to all Californians, and at the moment’s client alerts intention to do exactly that,” Bonta stated in a press release.
Beneath the state legislation, landlords of buildings older than 15 years in L.A. County can elevate their hire not more than 8.8% by means of July 31, after which a brand new restrict can be set based mostly on inflation.
The state legislation doesn’t override stricter native hire management legal guidelines, corresponding to within the metropolis of Los Angeles. There, if a property falls underneath the town’s hire stabilization ordinance, hire will increase are at present capped at 4%, or 6% if the owner pays for gasoline and different utilities.
Buildings that fall underneath the town’s hire stabilization ordinance are typically properties constructed on or earlier than Oct. 1, 1978.
Occasions workers author Liam Dillon contributed to this report.
