Units That Are Exempt From the Rent Adjustment Law
- Section 8 units and other units that have rents that are controlled,
regulated,
or subsidized by a governmental unit, agency, or authority.
- Accommodations in motels, hotels, inns, tourist houses, rooming houses,
and boarding houses, provided that such accommodations are not occupied
by the same tenant
for thirty (30) or more consecutive days.
- Housing accommodations in any hospital, convent, monastery, extended
care facility, convalescent home, nonprofit home for the aged, or dormitory
owned and operated
by an educational institution.
- Dwelling units in a nonprofit cooperative, owned, occupied, and controlled
by
a majority of the residents.
- Dwelling units which were newly constructed and received a certificate
of occupancy
on or after January 1, 1983.
- Buildings that were substantially rehabilitated after January 1,
1983. (See O.M.C.
8.22.030 B(2))
- Dwelling units exempt pursuant to the provisions of
the “Costa-Hawkins
Act” (see Ca.Civil Code § 1954.52; these exemptions
generally apply to single family dwellings and condominiums).
- 2
or 3 units on a single assessor's parcel when one of the units is occupied
as the owner's principal residence for at least one year.
NOTE: Exemptions from Measure EE (the "Just Cause for Evictions" law) are
not the same as for the Rent Adjustment Law