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prescribed the use of the CPI for the “region” where the property is located as published by the USBLS. However, the only “regional” number it publishes is for the “West Region” which covers the 13 westernmost states.4) AB 1482 is ambiguous as to whether the CPI for a given metropolitan area covers every property within the county described. 5) AB 1482 was silent on rounding up or down the CPI. 6) Any rent increase would be delayed since the USBLS lags in publishing its indexes.
These issues have been claried as follows:
Each USBLS metropolitan area CPI index is referred to specically by name.
The applicable CPI index clearly applies to every property within the county of the metropolitan area.
The word "region" is no longer used to refer to the metropolitan areas.
The CPI to be used for these areas is specically the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumer for All Items.
If there is not an amount published in April for the applicable geographic area, the percentage change in the CPI is the percentage change in the amount published for March of the immediately preceding calendar year and March of the year before that. This will be the case for the counties of San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino. Rent increases are divided into two categories: Increases that take eect before August 1 of any calendar year, and increases that take eect on or after August 1. If the former, then the CPI percentage will be calculated using the percentage change in the amount published for April of the immediately preceding calendar year and April of the year before that. If the latter, then CPI percentage be the percentage change in the amount published for April of that calendar year and April of the immediately preceding calendar year.
The percentage change in the CPI is to be calculated by rounding to the nearest one-tenth of 1 percent.
Finally, if the USBLS adds a new metropolitan area after January 1, 2021, the CPI-U for that area will apply.
Additionally, The exemption from the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (commonly referred to as the statewide rent cap and just cause eviction law) for an owner-occupied "duplex" has been eliminated and replaced with the following exemptions:
"A property containing two separate dwelling units within a single structure in which the owner occupied one of the units as the owner’s principal place of residence at the beginning of the tenancy, so long as the owner continues in occupancy, and neither unit is an accessory dwelling unit or a junior accessory dwelling unit."
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