Annual rent increase limit: March 2026–February 2027
San Francisco Rent Ordinance § 37.3City law
For rent-controlled units, the annual allowable rent increase for March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027 is 1.6%.
Answers the question “How much can my rent go up?”
The source
SOURCE: https://www.sf.gov/news--annual-rent-increase-3126-22827-announced RETRIEVED: 2026-10-01 22:37 UTC Annual Rent Increase for 3/1/26 - 2/28/27 Announced | SF.gov Skip to main content news Annual Rent Increase for 3/1/26 - 2/28/27 Announced Rent Board For rent-controlled units, the annual allowable increase amount effective March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027 is 1.6%. January 14, 2026 For rent-controlled units , the annual allowable increase amount effective March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027 is 1.6%. To calculate the dollar amount of the 1.6% annual rent increase, multiply the tenant's base rent by .016. For example, if the tenant's base rent is $2,000.00, the annual…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D080, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- The summary identifies the covered units as rent-controlled but does not provide all building-fact criteria. It states that newly constructed rental units first obtaining a Certificate of Occupancy after June 13, 1979 are exempt from rent-increase limitations.
- Key value
- 1.6%
- 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 rent-controlled units, the annual allowable rent increase for March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027 is 1.6%.
- Key value
- 1.6%
- 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-SAN-FRANCISCO.
- 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.
- 71 applies
- 2 unknown
- 177 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.
- 3515 Fillmore St, San Francisco: Applies. San Francisco Rent Ordinance § 37.3 covers this address: built 1926 (year_built, DataSF wv5m-vpq2 (2025 roll)), before the June 13, 1979 cutoff.