On September 11, the California State Legislature passed the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482) authored by Assembly member David Chiu (D) of San Francisco. Under the bill, yearly rent increases for most housing will be capped at five percent plus inflation for the next ten years, starting January 1, 2020.
The legislation does not change the rules for tenants already under rent control rules in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities across the state. More than 2 million additional apartments in those cities and elsewhere in California will be covered by some limitation on annual rent increases, according to an estimate by UC Berkley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation built within the last 15 years or single-family home rentals unless they’re owned by corporations or institutional investors. The bill also limits the ability of landlords to evict tenants without documented lease violations after a renter has lived in an apartment for a year.
