Exemptions

Your property is exempt from the AB 1482 rent cap if it meets one of the following criteria:

1. A single-family home or condominium, provided the owner is not a real estate investment trust, a corporation, or an LLC with a corporate member — and the tenant has been given written notice that the unit is exempt
2. A property that received its certificate of occupancy within the past 15 years (this is a rolling window — units age into coverage)
3. A duplex where you occupied one unit as your principal residence at the start of the tenancy and continue to live there
4. Housing already deed-restricted as affordable housing for very low, low, or moderate income households
5. Certain government-subsidized housing — housing whose affordability is restricted by the subsidy program itself — and school dormitories
6. Housing subject to a local rent stabilization ordinance (the local law applies instead): an ordinance adopted before September 1, 2019 takes precedence regardless of whether its limits are stronger or weaker, while a later ordinance applies only if it is more restrictive than the Act

A tenant's Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher does not make the unit exempt. Vouchers subsidize market-rate tenancies and attach to the tenant rather than the housing, so a voucher tenancy in an otherwise covered unit is subject to the rent cap and just cause requirements like any other.