Limit on rent increases
Newark Code § 19:2-3.1City law
At lease expiration or termination of a periodic tenancy, a landlord may not request or receive an increase above the stated CPI measure or 4%, whichever is lower.
Answers the question “How much can my rent go up?”
The source
… 19:2-3. RENT INCREASES. 19:2-3.1. Determination of Rents. The establishment of rents between a landlord and tenant in all housing spaces shall hereafter be determined by the provisions of this chapter. At the expiration of a lease or at the termination of the lease of a periodic tenant, no landlord may request or receive an increase greater than the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the CPI fifteen (15) months prior to the month of the proposed rent increase to the CPI three (3) months prior to the month of the proposed rent increase. In no case shall the allowable rent increase exceed four (4%) percent. The allowable annual increase will not be permitted, if the dwelling is not in substantial compliance and/or if the landlord has not met the registration requirements as specified in this subsection 19:2-9.8. 19:2-3.2. Increases Limited; Notice of Increase The rents for any housing space…
- Official law
- Open the official source
- Document
- S018, retrieved Oct 4, 2026
- Dates
- In force since Oct 8, 2024
- Status on Oct 1, 2026
- In force
What it depends on
- Covers
- Conditions not extracted yet.
- Key value
- CPI increase for the specified measurement period, capped at 4%
- 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
- At lease expiration or termination of a periodic tenancy, a landlord may not request or receive an increase above the stated CPI measure or 4%, whichever is lower.
- Key value
- CPI increase for the specified measurement period, capped at 4%
- 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 NJ-NEWARK.
- Dates: in force from 2024-10-08 (New Jersey municipal default: 20 days after final passage 2024-09-18 (N.J.S.A. 40:49-2(d), 40:69A-181(b)); mayoral approval or publication may make it later); before that, not yet 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 140 sample addresses in New Jersey on Oct 1, 2026.
- 50 applies
- 90 not covered
Every dot is the rule engine’s result for that address. The larger dots are the example addresses listed below.