Rent control rules in Hernando County, FL — also known as rent stabilization or rent cap ordinances — limit annual rent increases and protect tenants from displacement.
Neither Hernando County nor the City of Brooksville can control rent. Florida's 2023 Live Local Act rewrote Fla. Stat. §125.0103 into a flat ban, deleting the old housing-emergency exception, so no local government may cap rent increases on any Nature Coast rental.
Before 2023, Florida let a county impose rent control only after declaring a housing emergency and winning a voter referendum. The Live Local Act (SB 102) deleted that exception, leaving Fla. Stat. §125.0103 as a flat prohibition. Hernando County and Brooksville set no ceiling on what a landlord in Spring Hill, Weeki Wachee, or Brooksville may charge or how much rent rises at renewal. A tenant's real protection is the lease itself, plus the notice rules in Florida's Residential Landlord and Tenant Act. Month-to-month tenancies still require written notice before a rent change under Fla. Stat. §83.57.
A local rent-control ordinance would be void under state preemption. A landlord who raises rent without the notice a month-to-month tenancy requires, or in retaliation for a complaint, gives the tenant grounds to contest it.
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