How Do I Determine if My Building is Covered by AB 1482 or Rent Control?

The "techies" have gotten together with ACCE and other tenant's rights organizations to form tenantprotections.org. They have created a slick tool to help tenants learn if they are covered by the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (otherwise known as AB 1482) or rent control.

See: https://tenantprotections.org/

By answering several questions, the tool will either answer your question about coverage under AB 1482 OR whether you may be covered by rent control and point you to tenants' rights organizations to help provide further guidance.

As it pertains to both AB 1482 and rent control, the year the building that you live in was built is one of the establishing factors. To discover when the building was built, you can search for the buidling address and companies like Zillow or Trulia may have that information. Or, contact the building records division in your city to establish when the building was issued a "certificate of occupancy." This certificate is issued by building inspection and certifies that the building is ready for occupany. If a certificate of occupancy was not issued, ask if the building received a "final permit" and when.

Tenantprotections.org is a collaborative project between various California non-profits, and volunteers including: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Code for San Francisco / Code For America, and TechEquity Collaborative.