Just cause required for termination of tenancy
San Diego Municipal Code § 98.0704City law
A landlord may not terminate a tenancy without just cause. The listed at-fault and good-faith no-fault reasons define the just cause grounds; additional stated conditions apply to particular no-fault grounds.
Answers the question “When can they end my tenancy?”
The source
… 2024, the notice required above may be provided in the lease. For a tenancy commenced or renewed on or after January 1, 2024, the notice required above shall be provided in the lease. (“Exemptions” added 5-25-2023 by O-21647 N.S.; effective 6-24-2023.) §98.0704 Just Cause Required for Termination of Tenancy A landlord shall not terminate a tenancy without just cause. For purposes of this Division, just cause includes at-fault just cause and no-fault just cause. (a) At-Fault Just Cause. At-fault just cause is any of the following: (1) a default in the payment of rent; (2) a breach of a material term of the lease, as described in California Code of Civil Procedure section 1161(3), as may be amended, including violation of a provision of the lease after being issued a …
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D073, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force since Jun 24, 2023
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Applies unless an exemption in § 98.0703 applies.
- Exemptions
- Exemptions include affordable housing, housing issued a certificate of occupancy within the previous 15 years, and the other circumstances specified in § 98.0703.
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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
- Eviction protection
- Requirement
- A landlord may not terminate a tenancy without just cause. The listed at-fault and good-faith no-fault reasons define the just cause grounds; additional stated conditions apply to particular no-fault grounds.
- Key value
- none
- 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-SAN-DIEGO.
- Dates: in force from 2023-06-24; before that, not yet in force.
- Coverage: tested against whether the building is subsidised, whether the owner lives in the building, the number of units, what the building is used for; 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.
- 50 unknown
- 200 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.