Rent Increase Limit
Landlords can only raise a tenant’s rent once per year and at a rate that is no more than 75% of the annual rate of inflation.
Landlords are now only allowed to give at most ONE rent increase in any twelve month period. The allowed increase described here will be in effect until September 30th, 2023 and depends on when the tenant moved into the unit.
Rent Rollback
- Renters whose units were built before Feb. 1, 1995, (that are not a condo or only unit on a lot) can start paying the rent they were charged for that space on May 17, 2021, regardless of how much the rent may have increased since then.
- Landlords who want to increase rent from that May 17, 2021, level need to serve their tenants with a 30-day notice of the increase.
- For tenants who moved in before that date, landlords are restricted to a 6% rent increase.
- For tenants who moved in after that date, the allowed increase ranges from .5 to 5%, depending on the exact month they took occupancy.
- Landlords are now only allowed to give at most ONE rent increase in any twelve month period. The allowed increase described here will be in effect until September 30th, 2023 and depends on when the tenant moved into the unit. This increase is not applied to the current rent, but is applied to the rolled back amount described above. If the tenant moved into your unit before May 17th 2021, the current allowed rent increase is 6.0%. If the tenant moved into your unit after May 17th 2021, use the table below to figure out what your allowed rent increase is based on when they moved in. In particular, if they moved in after May 17, 2022 then your allowed rent increase is zero.
| 2021 | 2022 | ||||||||||
| June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | |
| 5.5% | 5.0% | 5.0% | 4.75% | 4.0% | 3.5% | 3.25% | 2.25% | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.5% | |
The landlord is not allowed to raise the rent at all if there are serious issues in the unit, such as broken plumbing, or if the City of Pasadena has ordered them to make repairs and they have not.
Eviction Protections
Evictions will require just cause. Just cause included both at-fault and no-fault evictions. At-fault evictions, such as a tenant not paying rent or somehow breaching a lease to not require the owner to pay relocation assistance. However; landlords who issue no-fault evictions will need to provide relocation assistance.
New Rental Board
The City of Pasadena will establish a rental board to implement and enforce the new rent control provisions.
New Rental Registry
The city will also establish a registry to track data, including who owns a property, how much rent is charged and whether any complaints have been filed.