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NEW STATE LAW WILL CHANGE
BERKELEY RENT CONTROL


A new law, AB 1164, will change the existing Berkeley Rent Control system . This is the first of several "Fact Sheets" that the Berkeley Rent Stab ilization Board will develop to inform everyone about this new law.

AB 1164 is called the Costa/Hawkins Rental Housing Act and was signed int o law by Governor Wilson on 8/4/95. This law brings a new term into Berk eley's Rent Control system - "vacancy decontrol". VACANCY DECONTROL mean s that a rental unit owner will be able to set the rent for a unit that b ecomes vacant without reference to past rents or a "base rent". After th is initial rent is set following a vacancy, Rent Control will apply durin g the period of the tenancy and rent increases will be limited to annual adjustments and/or individual rent adjustments (as is the current policy) .

FULL VACANCY DECONTROL WILL NOT BEGIN UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1999. BETWEEN JANUARY 1, 1996 AND JANUARY 1, 1999 THERE IS A PHASE-IN PERIOD THAT MAY CAUSE SOME CONFUSION BECAUSE OF ITS COMPLICATED NATURE.

Some facts on AB 1164:

With these AB 1164 changes caused by this state law, the Rent Stabilizati on Board will have to, over the next several months, adopt new rules and regulations to deal with all of this. We will be sending out more of the se "Fact Sheets" as we come up with these new changes.

Let's go over AB 1164 once more:



This page was last updated 2/29/1996.

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