Page Mill Management v. City of East Palo alto
The Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Good Cause Ordinance (RSO) was adopted by popular vote in 1988 in the City of East Palo Alto.[1] The RSO requires the Board[2] to issue annual Certificate[s] of Maximum Legal Rent (hereafter Certificate or Certificates) stating the maximum allowable rent, or rent ceiling, landlords may charge tenants. (RSO, 8.G.) The principal method of calculating annual rent increases is set forth in section 11 of the RSO[3] and rule 1601 of the Board Rules and Regulations (hereafter Rule or Rules).[4] The Board computes the rent increases and informs landlords and tenants of the new maximum allowable rent in the annual Certificates. (RSO, 8.G., 11; Rules 1600-1601.) At the end of November 2007, Landlords gave notices of rent increases to their tenants in units subject to the RSO. In January 2008, after receiving numerous complaints from Landlords tenants, the City Council enacted Ordinance No. 308 (Urgency Ordinance) that limited permissible rent increases as to every residential rental unit registered in the RSO program, including Landlords units.
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