Cap the Annual General Adjustment at 5%
Berkeley Municipal Code § 13.76.110ACity law
The Annual General Adjustment may not exceed 5%.
Answers the question “How much can my rent go up?”
The source
… registration billing cycle. CHANGES ANNUAL GENERAL ADJUSTMENT (AGA) CAP TO 5% The AGA is the amount by which the landlord of a fully-covered rental unit may raise the rent each year. The elected Rent Board sets the AGA by following a formula in the Rent Ordinance that ties the AGA to the Consumer Price Index. NEW: The maximum AGA is 5%. This means that, if the formula in the Rent Ordinance results in an AGA that is greater than 5%, the AGA approved by the Board for that year can be no more than 5%. This cap does not prevent a landlord who has “banked” (unused) AGAs from previous years from implementing a rent increase that is greater than 5% in…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D006, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Fully covered Berkeley rental units; the cap does not prevent use of banked AGAs to reach the rent ceiling.
- Key value
- 5%
- What you can do next
- Read the law at its official source
Audit trail
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Extracted by the model
What the model read from the source text, checked by code (the quote must appear word for word).
- Category
- Rent increases
- Requirement
- The Annual General Adjustment may not exceed 5%.
- Key value
- 5%
- 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 Municipal Code § 13.76.110A); no building condition in it excludes this address.