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I Just Signed A One-year Lease For An Affordable Housing Unit In California. Today, I Came Home To A Notice Saying My Rent Is Going To Increase Over 40% In 60 Days. Is This Legal?

I signed the lease in March for one year. The increase is 41.9% over my current rent. I was sort of regretting signing a year lease as I discovered a roach infestation on the property after I moved in but the one thing I had going for me was I thought I was locked into this (relatively) low rent for at least a year until I could find a new place. Then I got home to this notice today saying they will be raising the rent significantly starting July 1st. Some quick research shows the California rent-increase cap does NOT apply to affordable housing units like mine and apparently they are not even raising it as much as they can as they say in the notice they could have raised it by 54%!

However, I thought that a lease locked me into that rate for at least the length of the lease. Can they just change the rent even if I've signed a year lease?

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I Just Signed A One-year Lease For An Affordable Housing Unit In California. Today, I Came Home To A Notice Saying My Rent Is Going To Increase Over 40% In 60 Days. Is This Legal?

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