California’s Statewide Rent Cap Explained: What AB 1482 Really Requires (and Who’s Exempt)

California’s Tenant Protection Act of 2019 has governed rent increases and many tenancy terminations across the state since 2020. Here’s what property owners, investors, homeowners, and tenants should know about AB 1482.

Southern California multifamily apartment building on a palm-lined street

AB 1482 applies to much of California’s rental housing, but important exemptions and local rules can significantly change how the law applies.

If you own, manage, rent, or are shopping for property in California, chances are AB 1482 already affects you — even if you’ve never heard the name. Formally known as the Tenant Protection Act of 2019, this state law has governed rent increases and evictions for much of California rental housing…

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Hey, Ben here.

Most of what changed around here this month happened on the big streets.

Walk one block off any of those corridors, and it is quiet. Same porches, same parking habits, same neighbors arguing about the same tree.

That gap, between what the boulevard is doing and what the block behind it is doing, is where most of this edition lives.

Let's get into it.

  • Neighborhood Happenings: Hollywood Blvd closes, and the Observatory opens its lawn

  • What’s Going Up: Sunset and Hyperion both get fences

  • How’s The Market?: Houses firmed up, small buildings did not

  • On the Table: A Craftsman cottage starts its next chapter

  • Ben’s Picks: $845 a foot, $1,459 a foot, and sixteen doors

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