Limit on residential rent increases
Santa Ana Rent Stabilization OrdinanceCity law
Limit annual rent increases to the lower of 3% or 80% of the percent change in the Consumer Price Index over the most recent 12-month period; if the CPI is negative, no increase is permitted.
Answers the question “How much can my rent go up?”
The source
… stabilize our neighborhoods and prevent the trauma of being displaced by excessive rent hikes and unjustified evictions. Landlords and property owners will continue to have the ability to responsibly manage and generate a reasonable return on their investment.” Key requirements of the Rent Stabilization Ordinance Increase in residential rents are limited to the lower of 3% per year, or 80% of the percent change in the Consumer Price Index over the most recent 12-month period. If the CPI is negative, no rent increase is permitted. The City will publish the allowable rent increase effective for this year at santa-ana.gov/renterprotections no later than November 19, 2021. Thereafter, the City will publish the allowable rent increase no later than June 30 of each year, which shall be effective as of September 1 of that year. The rent cap does…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- D085, retrieved Oct 1, 2026
- Dates
- In force since Nov 19, 2021
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Applies to residential buildings other than buildings constructed after February 1, 1995 and mobile home spaces offered for rent after January 1, 1990.
- Key value
- Lower of 3% per year or 80% of the CPI change; 2.87% for September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027
- Exemptions
- Residential buildings constructed after February 1, 1995; mobile home spaces offered for rent after January 1, 1990.
- 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
- Limit annual rent increases to the lower of 3% or 80% of the percent change in the Consumer Price Index over the most recent 12-month period; if the CPI is negative, no increase is permitted.
- Key value
- Lower of 3% per year or 80% of the CPI change; 2.87% for September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027
- 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-SANTA-ANA.
- Dates: in force from 2021-11-19; before that, not yet in force.
- Coverage: tested against the year the building was built, what the building is used for, the number of units, whether the building is subsidised; 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.
- 250 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.