website serving as a tool and resource for tenants trying to understand how the Tenant Protection Act will affect them

• Overview
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• Contributors
• License

Background

Coming into effect statewide in January 2020, the California Tenant Protection Act will place new limits on rent increases and arbitrary evictions. Most corporate-owned residential properties in California that are at least 15 years old will be subject to a 5-10% rent cap and require a ‘just cause’ for eviction. In addition, this law will roll back any rent increases enacted after March 15th, 2019 that were above the rent cap.

We are building RentCap to serve as an important web tool / resource for tenants to access personalized and reliable information about who is protected by the California Tenant Protection Act (AB 1482) and how much their rent can increase under the new law.

It will:

• Help tenants self-enforce their rights under AB 1482 by offering this web tool as a resource that can provide clarity on eligibility, rent rollback qualification, and rent increases.
• Be an easily accessible resource that allows more people to be served.

Our project is open-source and under active development, so please get in touch with us and contribute! We have all kinds of ways to contribute, from Copywriting to UX, as well as Front and Back-end development.

• Join our slack channel

  • First join the sfbrigade workspace,
  • Then search for the #rent-cap channel

• Come find us at the weekly Code for SF Meetup

• Visit our project wiki to find relevant information and resources

• Take a look at at our project board or our list of issues to get started!

You can also get in touch with [email protected] for more info, or come find us at the weekly !

This project was started during the 2019 National Day of Civic Hacking through the Code for SF brigade. We've joined forces with TechEquity to make RentCap happen!

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