LA Rent Calculator
LA City Council just adopted a new rent control policy! See how it compares to our Keep LA Housed plan, the old RSO, and the LAHD proposal. Type in your monthly rent to visualize your potential rent increases over the next five years. 📈🔧
UPDATE 12 NOV 2025: Los Angeles City Council has approved a new rent control measure that sets annual rent increases at 90% of inflation with a floor of 1% and a cap of 4% (with rounding). While we're happy that the utility add-ons and rent banking schemes have been eliminated, we believe 90% of inflation with rounding doesn't go far enough to protect tenants. We will continue to fight for more extensive rent control, a rent cap, and for the decommodification of housing and all basic needs. This page has been updated to reflect the new policy so you can see how it compares. We also also extend our deepest gratitude to all the tenants and community members who organized, testified, and fought tirelessly to make this happen, in particular our comrades at ACCE (Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment). Your voices made a difference! 🙌🏽🏠 Stay informed and empowered! 🏠✊
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Take Action: Paste your future rent into this letter to your city councilmember now!
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- Step 1: Enter your current monthly rent and set example inflation rates with the slider
- Step 2: Tap the white "copy" button to put your future rent numbers on your clipboard
- Step 3: Tap the red "start writing" button and fill in the blanks, the actionnetwork script will automatically select your councilmember based on your address.
- Step 4: When the letter opens, paste your rent numbers into the letter and send it to your councilmember!
If you don't see the "start writing" button, navigate to the ✍️ letter writing page. When you click through and get to the letter, paste in your personalized rent numbers and "send" to show those in power what their choices will cost us!
Keep LA Housed Plan
The Keep LA Housed plan is designed to provide a transparent approach to rent increases, ensuring that tenants are protected from excessive hikes while allowing for fair adjustments based on 60% of inflation, with a maximum annual increase set at 3%. Our proposal would apply to all rental units. Basically, maximum rent increases for all LA units would be set at 3/5ths of inflation,with a cap of 3% (applied to all units pending update to/repeal of California's Costa-Hawkins Act).
Old RSO
The Old Rent Stabilization Ordinance allowed for rent increases to be at 100% of the CPI (Consumer Price Index). The Old RSO also set a minimum of 3% and a maximum of 8% rent increase annually, plus one percent for gas and/or one percent for electric added on each year. Single-family homes, condos, and buildings constructed after 1978 were exempt from these limits.
LAHD Proposal
The Los Angeles Housing Department's proposal uses "CPI minus housing" rather than raw CPI, and allows for a minimum of 2% and a maximum of 5% increase annually, with the option to bank unused increases for future years. This banking scheme means tenants end up paying more even when inflation goes down year-to-year. Why is LAHD protecting landlords from inflation?
New RSO
The New Rent Stabilization Ordinance adopted by LA City Council on November 12, 2025 sets rent increases at 90% of inflation with a floor of 1% and a cap of 4%, rounded to the nearest whole number. We are happy that old RSO buildings that get demolished will be replaced with RSO buildings. We are also happy that this new policy eliminates rent bank swindling and utility gouging. Those are victories. But, those are side issues compared to the percentage cap and how inflation is factored. We thought that 3/5ths of inflation would be fair to landlords, but instead it is 9/10ths of inflation, and after rounding, the difference is marginal (illustrated above, you can see the white line is often obscured because it is so close to the red/yellow lines). The ammended RSO that council adopted is sometimes even worse than LAHD's proposal when inflation rounds up. (i.e. 2.5% inflation still becomes a 3% rent increase). Landlords can also still add on if you add a roommate, unless the new roommate is your firstborn. Lastly, the New RSO of course still only covers buildings built before 79, as California's Costa-Hawkins law exempts newer construction. So there is a lot more work to do.
"Stronger rent control is money in your pocket!"
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Empowering Tenants, One Calculation at a Time
Use this tool to understand how different policies affect your rent over time. For more information on the Keep LA Housed plan, visit CapTheRentLA. At the Keep LA Housed Coalition and and DSA-LA, we think all tenants deserve to see how the Keep LA Housed plan compares to the current RSO and the LAHD proposal.
About the Keep LA Housed Plan
- The Keep Los Angeles Housed Plan was created by the Keep LA Housed Coalition, DSA-LA, and regular tenants just like you!
- The Keep Los Angeles Housed Coalition plan aims to provide a fair and transparent approach to rent increases in Los Angeles, ensuring that tenants are protected from excessive hikes while allowing for some reasonable adjustments based on inflation.
- The plan would apply to all rental units, including single-family homes and condominiums, which are currently exempt under the existing Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO).
- The plan proposes to limit rent increases to 60% of the Consumer Price Index (CPI), with a maximum annual increase set at 3%. This means that if inflation is low, rent increases will be minimal, and if inflation is high, rent increases will still be capped at a reasonable level.
- The Keep LA Housed plan also includes provisions to prevent landlords from evicting tenants in order to raise rents, as well as measures to ensure that tenants are informed about their rights and have access to resources for legal assistance.
- The Keep LA Housed Coalition is made up of a diverse group of organizations and individuals who are committed to fighting for affordable housing and tenant rights in Los Angeles.
- We believe that everyone deserves a safe and stable place to call home, and we are working to make that a reality for all Angelenos.
- We believe that the time has come for Los Angeles City Council to adopt a rent control policy that puts tenants first and ensures that everyone has access to affordable housing.
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