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West Hollywood AGA rent increase limits
West Hollywood's Annual General Adjustment is 2.75% for rent years starting September 1, up from 2.25% the year before, and the ordinance keeps a hard ceiling of 3% over it. It takes 30 days of written notice, and an adjustment you skip is gone rather than banked.
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization News, Summer 2026 (official city newsletter) Verified August 9, 2026
The figures behind this
Applies September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027
"Beginning September 1, 2026, the Annual General Adjustment (AGA) for dwellings on properties with two or more units first occupied or receiving a certificate of occupancy on or before July 1, 1979 is 2.75%." It is 75% of the May-to-May CPI-U for Los Angeles–Long Beach–Anaheim, rounded to the nearest quarter percent. The Rent Stabilization Commission announced it on June 25, 2026; the city then printed it in its Summer 2026 newsletter.
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization News, Summer 2026 (official city newsletter) Verified August 9, 2026
"The AGA may not exceed three (3) percent regardless of the CPI increase", the city's own FY2026–27 staff report, which cites WHMC §17.36.020 as the section defining how the AGA is calculated. Several rate-aggregator sites publish 4% for West Hollywood; the city says 3%.
Source: West Hollywood FY2026–27 Annual General Adjustment staff report (official city agenda packet) Verified August 9, 2026
Applies September 1, 2025 through August 31, 2026
"2.25% is the maximum rent increase effective September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2026", still the headline figure on the city's live rent stabilization page.
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization Verified August 9, 2026
The city's Summer 2026 newsletter states: "Tenants must be given a written 30-day notice or 60-day notice for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders." Thirty days is the period for an ordinary tenancy, consistent with Civil Code §827(b), which gives thirty days for an increase of 10% or less in twelve months, and the AGA is capped at 3%. If your tenant holds a Housing Choice Voucher, the city says sixty.
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization News, Summer 2026 (official city newsletter) Verified August 9, 2026
"Tenants must be given a written 30-day notice or 60-day notice for Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher holders", from the City of West Hollywood, Rent Stabilization News, Summer 2026. Serve sixty days on a voucher tenancy, not thirty.
Source: City of West Hollywood: Rent Stabilization News, Summer 2026 (official city newsletter) Verified August 9, 2026
Code of Civil Procedure §1013(a) extends the period "five calendar days, upon service by mail, if the place of address and the place of mailing is within the State of California." Post it thirty days out and it is late.
Source: California Code of Civil Procedure §1013 (service by mail) Verified August 9, 2026
"Since the 1996 general adjustment, a landlord loses the right to take the increase, if they do not charge it to the tenant during the year it is in effect. The adjustment cannot be banked and passed on to the tenant at a future date." A year you skip is gone.
Source: West Hollywood: Annual Increases in the Maximum Allowable Rent Verified August 9, 2026
The city lets a landlord take the annual general adjustment only if they complied with initial registration, re-registered the unit after a vacancy (for tenants who moved in from 1996 onward), paid all annual rent registration fees, and it has been twelve months since move-in or since the last adjustment. "The landlord must give the tenants proper written notice in accordance with current State law." The AGA is announced before July 1, notices may start August 1, and it runs September 1 through August 31.
Source: West Hollywood: Annual Increases in the Maximum Allowable Rent Verified August 9, 2026
What to do
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September 1
West Hollywood Annual General Adjustment becomes available
The new AGA applies to rent years starting September 1. Notices may go out from August 1, and only if the unit's registration is in order (initial registration complied with, re-registered after any vacancy for tenancies from 1996 on, all annual fees paid) and twelve months have passed since move-in or the last adjustment. Written notice to the tenant is required, in accordance with current state law.
There is no banking in West Hollywood: an adjustment you do not charge during the year it is in effect is lost.
About this date: If your tenant holds a Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher, the city says the notice is sixty days, not thirty.
West Hollywood Rent Stabilization
Source: West Hollywood: Annual Increases in the Maximum Allowable Rent Verified August 9, 2026
What we do not hold
- West Hollywood's municipal code is behind a host that refuses automated requests, so we cite the city's own pages and published newsletters rather than the WHMC chapter text.
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