Rent increase frequency and allowable percentage
LAMC § 151.06City law
For covered RSO units, rent may be increased once every 12 months by the allowable rent-increase percentage; the reported rate for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 is 3%.
Answers the question “How much can my rent go up?”
The source
… LAHD approval Rent may be increased to the market rate if the tenant: voluntarily moves out; does not pay rent and is evicted; violated the lease agreement and is evicted; is evicted for failure to comply with a Tenant Habitability Plan; or is evicted per a City Attorney order. accepts a Tenant Buyout Agreement Rent may be increased once every 12 months by the allowable rent increase percentage (click here to view the allowable rent increase PDF ). Effective February 2, 2026, the landlord can no longer include an additional percentage increase for utilities. Effective March 30, 2020, through January 31, 2024, rent increases are prohibited for rental units subject to the Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO).…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D041, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Generally, rental properties first built on or before October 1, 1978, including listed covered property types and replacement units under LAMC § 151.28.
- Key value
- 3% for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026
- Exemptions
- Condominium and townhome rent amounts are not regulated for tenancies commencing after December 31, 1995.
- Open question
- Sources publish different effective dates for Los Angeles’s new Rent Stabilization Ordinance formula.
- 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
- Rent increases
- Requirement
- For covered RSO units, rent may be increased once every 12 months by the allowable rent-increase percentage; the reported rate for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 is 3%.
- Key value
- 3% for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026
- 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-LOS-ANGELES.
- Dates: no effective date in the text; treated as in force.
- Coverage: tested against the year the building was built; 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.
- 47 applies
- 8 unknown
- 195 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.
- 10635 Sherman Grove Ave, Los Angeles: Unknown. Unknown whether LAMC § 151.06 covers this address: depends on built 1978 (year_built, LA County eGIS parcels), but the cutoff is on or before October 1, 1978 and the year alone can't settle it. Check the certificate-of-occupancy date (city building department or the landlord).