West Covina, CA Rental Property Rules: Rent Increase Notice (2026)

West Covina's mobile home park rent-control article, adopted in 1984 and still governing spaces rented before December 1, 1983, splits rent increases into two tracks with very different notice obligations. Section 15-183 lets an owner raise the base rent once a year tied to the prior year's change in the Los Angeles/Long Beach consumer price index, with a floor of five percent and a ceiling of nine percent annually; an owner can choose a smaller increase but never has to notify tenants in advance or seek approval for this annual CPI adjustment, because the section itself imposes no notice requirement.

Anything above that capped range requires the owner to file a supplemental rent increase application with the city's Human Resources Department under Section 15-184. Once that application is complete, subsection (c) requires the department to mail notice to every affected tenant at the mobile home spaces named in the application, disclosing the receipt of the application, the dollar amount of the requested increase, a summary of the owner's justification, and the tenants' right to submit written statements or documents opposing the increase within thirty days of the mailing.

The Human Resources Commission then holds a public hearing within forty-five days of a completed application, and either side can appeal the commission's decision to the city council within ten days of the mailed notice of determination. None of these mobile home procedures apply to standard apartment or single-family rentals, which fall instead under the state Tenant Protection Act rent cap.