Camarillo, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Control (2026)
Rent control rules in Camarillo, CA, also known as rent stabilization or rent cap ordinances, limit annual rent increases and protect tenants from displacement.
Key Facts
- Ordinance
- No. 2038, adopted May 13, 2026
- Scope
- Mobile home parks only, not apartments
- Annual increase band
- 2% floor, 6% cap, CPI-based
- Frequency limit
- One increase per 12 months
- Notice required
- 90 days to homeowner and administrator
- Petition threshold
- 50% + 1 of affected homeowners
- Overcharge penalty
- Treble damages plus attorneys' fees
Summary
Camarillo caps rent increases only in mobile home parks, not apartments or houses. Chapter 10.55, adopted May 13, 2026, limits park owners to one annual increase of 2% to 6% tied to CPI, with a formal petition and arbitration process for anything higher.
A permissible ministerial annual increase shall be based on the consumer price index" or "CPI" as defined in this chapter. Notwithstanding the prior, the permissible ministerial annual increase may not be less than a minimum of two percent but not exceed six percent of the base rent. For example, if CPI is one percent a permissible increase may be two percent. Conversely, if CPI is eight percent a permissible increase may not be more than six percent.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
55 of the Municipal Code regulates only mobile home space rent, covering the city's roughly 497 mobile home spaces at Casa Del Norte, Camarillo Mobile Estates and Lamplighter Mobile Home Park. 070, a park owner may implement only one rent increase per homeowner in any twelve-month period, and the permissible ministerial annual increase must track the CPI for the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim region, floored at 2% and capped at 6% of base rent regardless of how high CPI runs. 080, and can be challenged. 090 lets affected homeowners petition for arbitration within 45 days of notice if signed by 50% plus one of the affected homeowners; the contested increase is frozen until an arbitrator, selected and paid by the city, rules or the petition is abandoned.
050 sets separate vacancy terms: an 8% increase is allowed on re-rental of an existing mobile home to a new tenant, but the space rent resets to any amount when a new tenant brings in a replacement mobile home, with no increase allowed if the incoming resident is a qualifying family member of the outgoing tenant. 030. 190, and petitions go to the Community Development Department at 601 Carmen Drive.
Violations & Fines
Charging or keeping rent above what Chapter 10.55 allows exposes a park owner to a civil suit under Section 10.55.200: the homeowner can recover the excess rent, and if the overcharge is willful, treble damages plus the homeowner's reasonable attorneys' fees and costs, with no requirement to exhaust any administrative remedy first. A park owner who fails to give the required 90-day notice and documentation under Section 10.55.080 forfeits the right to collect any increase beyond the ministerial CPI amount, and that failure is also a full defense if the owner later sues to collect the increase or to recover possession of the space. Under Section 10.55.210, a homeowner's refusal to pay an unlawful increase is likewise a complete affirmative defense to any eviction action for nonpayment.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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