Rent control rules in Fayetteville, AR — also known as rent stabilization or rent cap ordinances — limit annual rent increases and protect tenants from displacement.
Fayetteville has no rent control and cannot enact it. Arkansas Code Sec. 14-54-1409 bars any city from limiting rent. Landlords set market rents and may raise them by any amount with the notice their lease requires.
Rent control is illegal in Fayetteville. Ark. Code Ann. Sec. 14-54-1409(b) prohibits any local governmental unit from enacting, maintaining, or enforcing an ordinance controlling the rent charged for private residential or commercial property, and Sec. 14-16-601 extends the same bar to counties. Fayetteville therefore has no rent cap, no stabilization board, and no ceiling on increases. For a month-to-month tenancy a landlord must give written notice before raising rent; fixed-term leases change only at renewal. A tenant's protection is the lease itself plus Arkansas anti-retaliation and federal fair-housing law.
No local rent-control penalties exist because the ordinance itself is preempted. A landlord who raises rent without the lease-required notice can be challenged, and a retaliatory increase after a code complaint is barred by state law.
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