To learn whether the Tenant Protection Act (TPA) of 2019 (AB 1482) applies to you, click on the following link, then scroll down to the colorful flowchart and answer the questions. Click here 

If it does, then from March 15, 2019 to December 1, 2029, your rent cannot be increased, over a 12-month period, more than 5%, plus the increase in the region’s Consumer Price Index (CPI), for All Urban Consumers, for All Items. In no case may it be increased more than 10%.

If you are covered by the TPA, then click on the following link for the most recent CPI increase for All Urban Consumers for All Items, and “find” or scroll down to “Consumer Price Index, San Diego Area, March, Current Year”. Click here

To view prior CPI annual increases click on the above link, go to “Archives by Year”, select the “YEAR”, and “find” or scroll down the page for the “Consumer Price Index, San Diego Area”, March of that year.

Which CPI increase applies, depends on whether the [proposed] rent increase was [will be] effective before August 1, or on or after that date. For rent increases that take effect before August 1, the percentage change is the change between March of last year, and the year before that. For rent increases that take effect on or after August 1, the percentage change is the change between March of the current year and last year. See Civil Code section 1947.12, subd. (g)(3)(B).

• the rent increase is 10 percent or less, in and off itself or when combined with all rent increases within 12 months of the effective date of the increase; or 
• when the rent increase results from a change in the family income or composition as determined by a recertification required by statute or regulation. 

• personally, or by
• US mail, in accordance with Code of Civil Procedure section 1013