Chino, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Control (2026)
Rent control rules in Chino, CA, also known as rent stabilization or rent cap ordinances, limit annual rent increases and protect tenants from displacement.
Key Facts
- Formula rent cap
- 66% of CPI change, annually
- Vacancy increase cap
- 20% of current max rent
- Sublease surcharge cap
- 10% of permitted rent
- Misdemeanor fine
- up to $500, 6 months, or both
- Appeal deadline
- 30 days from decision
- Governing body
- Mobilehome Park Rent Stabilization Commission
- Base year
- calendar year 2000
Summary
Chino does not regulate apartment or house rents, but its 1978 voter-adopted Chapter 2.68 caps space rent increases in mobilehome parks: formula increases are limited to 66% of the CPI change per year, and vacancy increases to 20% of the current maximum rent.
A.Formula Increases. Space rents shall be increased annually by no more than sixty-six percent of the total percentage change in the CPI for the applicable CPI adjustment period as determined by the city manager pursuant to this chapter, unless a park owner chooses not to impose a formula increase on any spaces in his or her park, except that the formula increase must be imposed on all spaces in the park that are subject to rent control, or not be imposed on any spaces at all... B.Vacancy Increases. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of this section, upon vacancy, space rent may be increased up to twenty percent of the then-current maximum allowable rent permitted by this chapter prior to the vacancy; except that if the space becomes vacant because the mobilehome owner renting that space is evicted by court order or abandons the space, the rent on the space may be increased one time to the amount of rent the park charges on spaces exempt from rent control under section 2.68.030 of this chapter.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 38).
Full Breakdown
68, Mobilehome Park Rent Regulation, traces to a 1978 voter-adopted rent stabilization ordinance and was substantially rewritten by Ord. 2001-07 in 2001. 010 recites the residents' findings behind it: a shortage of mobilehome spaces, no new parks built in the prior twenty years, rising space rents, and the high cost and difficulty of relocating a mobilehome once installed. 090(A): space rents may be increased annually by 'no more than sixty-six percent of the total percentage change in the CPI for the applicable CPI adjustment period,' calculated each calendar year from January 1 to December 31, with formula increases applied either to all rent-controlled spaces in a park or none.
100(C). 030. 090(D)(2). 050. 140(C) bars any lease clause that purports to waive rent control. 160 creates a rebuttable presumption that an eviction filed within one year of a resident's rent-control complaint or petition is retaliatory.
Violations & Fines
Section 2.68.180 makes any demand, acceptance or retention of rent above the lawful maximum space rent grounds for a mobilehome owner to sue for injunctive relief and damages, with attorneys' fees and costs to the prevailing party. Separately, violating any provision of Chapter 2.68 is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $500, up to six months in jail, or both, and each day a violation continues is a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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