Security deposit interest coverage
Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Just Cause OrdinanceCity law
The guide indicates that listed fully and partially covered unit types are covered for security deposit interest.
Answers the question “How much deposit can they ask?”
The source
… with current tenancies that began before 1996** Fully Covered Yes Yes Yes Yes Rooming house: single-family homes with five or more rooms rented out individually with separate leases** Fully Covered Yes Yes Yes Yes New construction: units that were built and received a Certificate of Occupancy after June 1980** Partially Covered Yes No Yes Yes Single-family home with a tenancy that began on or after January 1, 1996** Partially Covered Yes No Yes Yes Most condominiums** Partially Covered Yes No Yes Yes Units with the following government subsidies regardless of unit type: Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly, Section 811 Supportive Housing…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D009, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- The table marks the listed fully and partially covered unit types as covered for security deposit interest.
- Exemptions
- The guide lists Golden Duplexes, certain owner-shared kitchen or bath units, certain ADU tenancies, university rental units, and nonprofit cooperatives as exempt.
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
The model reads the law; code decides who it covers. The line between them stays visible.
Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Deposits
- Requirement
- The guide indicates that listed fully and partially covered unit types are covered for security deposit interest.
- Key value
- none
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 50%
reasoning boundary
Decided by code
Deterministic: same rules, facts and date give the same answer.
- Jurisdiction: listed only for addresses whose state or legal city is CA-BERKELEY.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: tested against what the building is used for, whether the owner lives in the building, the number of units, whether the building is subsidised; a missing fact gives "unknown", never a guess.
As of Oct 1, 2026Engine run
Sources retrieved Oct 1, 2026.
Which buildings it reaches
All 250 sample addresses in California on Oct 1, 2026.
- 40 unknown
- 210 not covered
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below. 2 addresses have no coordinates and are counted but not drawn.
Decided by code for the example addresses
On Oct 1, 2026. Rules that don’t apply are left out.
- 1609 Addison St, Berkeley: Unknown. Unknown whether Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Just Cause Ordinance covers this address: depends on whether the owner lives there and whether the building is subsidised (neither is in the data); and on a condition in the text we can't check from the data ("Unit where the owner shares a kitchen or bath with the tenant if the o…"). Check whether the owner lives in the building (ask the landlord) and whether the building has a subsidy or affordability restriction (city housing department).