Pay adjusted standard relocation assistance
Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Good Cause for Eviction Ordinance; Berkeley Ellis Implementation OrdinanceCity law
Owners must pay relocation assistance for owner move-in and Ellis Act evictions; the 2026 standard payment is $19,413.
Answers the question “When can they end my tenancy?”
The source
… Rent Board Skip to main content Skip to site search City of Berkeley Share Print 2026 Adjustments of Relocation Assistance Payments Annual increases for owner move-in and Ellis Act eviction relocation assistance payments go into effect January 1, 2026. Published: October 27, 2025 Last Updated: October 27, 2025 The Rent Stabilization and Good Cause for Eviction Ordinance requires owners to pay tenants relocation assistance in the event of an owner move-in eviction. The Ellis Implementation Ordinance requires the same relocation assistance payments for tenants evicted so the owner can remove a property from the rental housing market. Both ordinances index the relocation payments to inflation, and provide that the Rent Board shall publish the yearly inflationary increases. At its…
- Official law
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- Document
- D004, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Owner move-in evictions and evictions to remove a property from the rental housing market.
- Key value
- $19,413 standard relocation assistance payment for 2026
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
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Extracted by the model
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- Category
- Eviction protection
- Requirement
- Owners must pay relocation assistance for owner move-in and Ellis Act evictions; the 2026 standard payment is $19,413.
- Key value
- $19,413 standard relocation assistance payment for 2026
- Effect
- protection_or_duty
- Quote found in source
- yes
- Confidence
- 90%
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: no building condition the data can test; conditions in words stay with the text.
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 applies
- 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: Applies. Citywide Berkeley rule in force (Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Good Cause for Eviction Ordinance; Berkeley Ellis Implementation Ordinance); no building condition in it excludes this address.