{ "_meta": { "dataset": "Landlord Atlas 50-State Landlord-Tenant Law Dataset", "dataset_version": "1.19.0", "published_at": "2026-08-26T14:30:00Z", "license": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/license/", "attribution": "Landlord Atlas (https://landlordatlas.com) — cite by name, link the relevant page, and carry the record's verification date.", "disclaimer": "Landlord Atlas is not a law firm. This dataset provides general information about state landlord-tenant statutes for informational purposes only. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Use of this data does not create an attorney-client relationship. Laws change: rely on the citations and verification dates carried in each record, and confirm against the cited statute before acting.", "schema": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/schema.json", "changelog": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/changelog.json", "version_manifest": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/version.json", "contact": "contact@landlordatlas.com", "description": "Machine-readable log of substantive changes to the Landlord Atlas dataset: statutory changes encoded, corrections, verification passes, and coverage additions. Entry types: law_change, correction, verification, presentation, coverage. states: [\"ALL\"] means the entry spans the full 50-state dataset. The narrative changelog behind this feed is maintained in the project's data changelog." }, "current_version": "1.19.0", "releases": [ { "version": "1.19.0", "published_at": "2026-08-26T14:30:00Z", "title": "Rental application and screening fee laws: twenty-four more states (36 of 50)", "summary": "Twenty-four more states join the rental application and screening fee topic, taking it to 36 of 50: Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Texas, each verified against its official statutes with citations and typed pending-legislation flags. The new states span the full range of approaches. New Jersey caps the total charged for one application at $50 (P.L.2025, c.405, in force since May 1, 2026, adjusted for inflation from January 1, 2027, with the applicable figure published by the Division of Consumer Affairs); fees labeled administrative or screening count toward the same $50. Connecticut bans application fees outright — the one permitted application-stage charge is a tenant screening report fee capped at $50 plus a consumer price index adjustment, and since May 26, 2026 the limits also bind third parties acting for a landlord. Rhode Island and Maine also ban application fees, each allowing only the actual cost of a screening check with the report handed to the applicant, and Maine allows only one such charge per applicant per 12 months. New Hampshire sets no dollar cap but requires written disclosure of the fee before collection and a refund of everything beyond documented check costs within 30 days when the applicant is not rented the unit. Montana requires a property manager of four or more units to refund an application fee, less pre-disclosed costs for services actually performed, when the applicant does not sign — a rule that sits in the property-manager licensing chapter rather than the landlord-tenant act. Texas sets no cap and instead ties refund duties to its printed tenant-selection-criteria notice, with a bad-faith penalty of $100 plus three times the amount wrongfully retained; the widely repeated claim that Texas caps fees at actual screening cost is not in the statute. Louisiana requires written notice of the fee amount and screening factors before any fee is taken, but the statute bars any private action for its violation. Arizona's one rule is that the purpose of a nonrefundable fee must be stated in writing, and a fee not designated nonrefundable is refundable — the circulating citation to an Arizona application-fee statute at § 33-1320 refers to a section that does not exist. Florida caps only the lease-approval fees of condominium and cooperative associations ($150 and $100 per applicant) and preempts local regulation of application fees. Illinois's reusable tenant screening report rule is in force now (no screening fee may be charged when a qualifying report is supplied), and its $50 application-fee cap with receipted third-party-cost exception, first-page-of-lease fee disclosure, and eleven-item fee ban takes effect January 1, 2027 for leases signed on or after that date. The remaining thirteen states — Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and South Dakota — currently regulate none of the twelve rules and are published as verified absences stating what governs instead, including the Indiana, Kansas, and Missouri statutes that preempt or void local rules in this area and the failed bills that still circulate as if enacted (Michigan's pending cap bills have passed no chamber; Nebraska's LB 17 was indefinitely postponed on April 17, 2026). Pennsylvania's HB 558, which would cap application fees at $20 and passed the House 148–53 on May 4, 2026, is flagged as pending in the Senate. Texas statute citations link to the Texas Legislative Council's text service at tcss.legis.texas.gov, which serves the full chapter text." }, { "version": "1.18.0", "published_at": "2026-08-25T16:40:00Z", "title": "Seventh topic: rental application and screening fee laws — first 12 states", "summary": "New topic covering what a landlord may charge a rental applicant: application-fee caps and bans, actual-cost limits, screening-charge conditions, receipt and refund duties, pre-collection disclosure duties, state denial-notice rules, reusable tenant screening reports, holding deposits, rental fee-transparency rules, and the penalties attached to each duty. Ships state by state (the same honest-subset pattern as the mobile home park topic): this release covers Washington, Oregon, California, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Delaware, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Maryland — the states with dedicated application- or screening-fee statutes — each verified against its official statutes, with citations, typed pending-legislation flags, and a per-state hub comparison at /laws/application-fees/. Remaining states follow as they are verified." }, { "version": "1.17.0", "published_at": "2026-08-24T20:15:00Z", "title": "Pending-legislation flags gain machine-readable stage and date fields; one spent Colorado flag removed", "summary": "Every pending-legislation flag on a state or mobile home park record now carries three machine-readable fields alongside its plain-language status: lifecycle (introduced, passed_one_chamber, passed_both_chambers, signed, vetoed, dead, or none_pending — the measure's stage as of the flag's checked date), signed_on (the date the measure was signed or enacted, where the official record states one), and effective_on (the date the flagged change becomes operative law, where known). All 104 flags across the dataset were typed from the official legislative history already stated on each flag; the published schema at /data/schema.json documents the fields. When a signed measure's effective date arrives, the change is incorporated into the record's answers and the flag is cleared — Delaware's SS 1 for SB 116 flags (effective September 1, 2026) are the next scheduled incorporation. One flag was removed as spent: Colorado House Bill 26-1145 (mobile home park water quality), signed May 4, 2026, took effect August 12, 2026, so it is no longer a coming change; the Colorado mobile home park record already states the rent-increase consequence of a missed water-quality deadline under C.R.S. § 38-12-204. No legal figure or claim changed in any record." }, { "version": "1.16.0", "published_at": "2026-08-24T02:30:00Z", "title": "Mobile home park and manufactured-housing community law: Wyoming and West Virginia complete the topic (all 50 states)", "summary": "Wyoming and West Virginia complete the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic: all 50 states now carry the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. West Virginia has a dedicated article for factory-built home rentals: every tenancy must be in a written agreement that contains the text of the article itself, a community owner may not end a tenancy for the first twelve months after a single-section home is placed on the site (five years for a multi-section home) except for one of four listed causes, ending a tenancy without cause afterward takes at least three months' written notice with the reason stated, and ending more than twenty-five tenancies in one community within eighteen months takes six months' notice to each tenant, backed by treble damages or a year's rent. Entrance fees, unlisted fees and sale commissions are barred and a resident's sale of the home in place is protected, but no advance notice is required before a lot-rent increase. Wyoming is the opposite pole of the whole dataset: it has no community tenancy act, and its general residential act expressly excludes a mobile home lot from the definition of a residential rental unit, so its habitability, deposit and abandoned-property rules do not reach a rented space. The one Wyoming statute written for these rentals is a lien: a lessor of a house-trailer site holds a lien on the home for unpaid rent, may post notice on the home and remove it after thirty days, though not while the resident lives in it. Eviction runs through forcible entry and detainer after rent is three days late, on three days' written notice to quit." }, { "version": "1.15.0", "published_at": "2026-08-23T15:30:00Z", "title": "Mobile home park and manufactured-housing community law: twelve more states — Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee (48 of 50)", "summary": "Twelve more states join the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic, taking it to 48 of 50: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee, each with the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. Two of the twelve have park-specific statutes: Nebraska’s Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act (60 days’ notice of a rent increase and of a rules change, a protected right to sell the home in place at the resident’s own price with a ten-day approval window, a seven-day nonpayment notice, no closure or sale regime, and since September 3, 2025 a statewide bar on local rent control), and North Dakota’s mobile home park tenant-rights section (90 days’ notice of a lot-rent increase, a six-month rent freeze after a park is sold where rent rose in the prior 60 days, 30 days’ notice of a rules change, 180 days’ notice of a change in use, a $3 cap on utility administration fees with metering required, a bar on forcing a resident to sell the home to the park, and a civil penalty of at least $2,500 enforced in small claims or district court). The other ten have no community tenancy act and are published as verified absences under the general landlord-tenant law, each naming the provisions that do reach a rented lot: North Carolina’s 60-day notice to quit for a manufactured-home space and 180-day conversion notice to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency; South Dakota’s 90-day notice to vacate and remove the home where land is developed for another use; Oklahoma’s general act, whose definitions expressly take in a manufactured-home site, space or lot so that its 30-day termination, five-day nonpayment demand, 45-day deposit return and one-day entry notice apply to the lot; Georgia’s ten-day post-judgment removal window and Abandoned Mobile Home Act; Mississippi’s 72-hour post-warrant removal window; Louisiana’s lender-notification and abandoned-home statutes; Arkansas’s manufactured-home-on-leased-land abandonment statute; Alabama’s abandoned-manufactured-dwelling chapter; and, for Hawaii and Tennessee, the general code alone. Local regulation of lot rents is barred by statute in ten of the twelve (all but Hawaii, which leaves rent regulation to the counties, and Louisiana, which has no statute either way), taking the preempted count to 30 of 48. None of the twelve requires a cause to end a lot tenancy. Federal protections already required by state law: Nebraska 3 of 8, North Dakota and South Dakota 1 of 8, the rest 0 of 8. Every figure was read from the state’s official statute text: the Nebraska, North Dakota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Louisiana legislatures’ own statute pages and PDFs, the Hawaii Revised Statutes as served by the Legislature, the Alabama Legislature’s Code of Alabama service, and the official public-access Codes of Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas; every 2025 and 2026 session was checked for a new act and none was found." }, { "version": "1.14.0", "published_at": "2026-08-23T14:20:00Z", "title": "Colorado fee prohibitions added to the late-fee record; Delaware's right-of-redemption act (effective September 1, 2026) flagged; three citation links re-pointed", "summary": "Colorado's late-fee record now carries the fee prohibitions of C.R.S. § 6-1-737(4), in force since January 1, 2026 (HB25-1090, ch. 94): a landlord may not require a tenant to pay any late or overdue fee on a charge that is not rent, a payment-processing fee unless a cost-free way to pay is reasonably accessible, a fee or charge that rises by more than two percent over the course of a lease of one year or less (utilities excepted), or fees for property taxes, common-area maintenance, goods or services not actually provided, or the landlord's own obligations; utility charges are limited to the provider's bill except under the § 38-12-801(3)(a)(VI) markup allowance or the ratio-utility-billing rules of § 6-1-737(4.5) (HB26-1013, effective March 26, 2026). The § 38-12-105 late-fee caps are unchanged; the section was read on the official 2026 Colorado Revised Statutes (Title 6) published by the Office of Legislative Legal Services. Delaware's eviction and mobile home park records flag SS 1 for SB 116 (85 Del. Laws c. 436), signed August 18, 2026 and effective September 1, 2026: the § 5502(a) nonpayment demand rises from 5 to 7 days, the pay-before and pay-after-filing cure rules lose their reservation-of-rights condition and bar a landlord from refusing rent payments, and new § 5716A gives a nonpayment defendant a right of redemption until the writ is executed (unavailable after two nonpayment possession judgments in 18 months); the manufactured-home-community notice in § 7016(b)(3) is rewritten in parallel. Delaware's figures state the law in force before September 1 and will change on that date. Citation links re-pointed with no change to any claim: Colorado's eviction record to the 2026 C.R.S. download page (the 2025 page now returns 404), Maryland's deposit record to the relaunched DHCD security-deposit-interest calculator address, and Passaic's record to the re-published September 11, 2025 Rent Leveling Board minutes. Sources last checked: August 23, 2026." }, { "version": "1.13.1", "published_at": "2026-08-19T13:20:00Z", "title": "South Carolina mobile home park record: citation label fix", "summary": "Citation label fix on the South Carolina mobile home park record: one citation to S.C. Code Ann. § 40-29-5 carried a pinpoint that repeated the section number and would have rendered twice; the pinpoint is removed. No legal figure or claim changed." }, { "version": "1.13.0", "published_at": "2026-08-19T12:30:00Z", "title": "Mobile home park and manufactured-housing community law: twelve more states — Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin (36 of 50)", "summary": "Twelve more states join the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic, taking it to 36 of 50: Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin, each with the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. Headline figures: New Jersey now limits lot-rent increases to 3.5% over any 12-month period (P.L.2025, c.85, operative March 1, 2026), the fifth statewide limit in the dataset, and its January 2026 Manufactured Home Park Protection Act gives residents a true right of first refusal (51% consent, 120 days); Rhode Island requires 60 days' notice of a rent or fee change, a one-year lease, a year's certified-mail notice plus up to $4,000 relocation on a closure by sale, and a right of first refusal through an incorporated 51% association; Pennsylvania's Manufactured Home Community Rights Act limits rent changes to once in 12 months with 60 days' notice, allows eviction for four reasons only, and sets 2026 relocation ceilings of $5,649.68 and $8,474.52 on closure; Utah gives nine months' closure notice and bars local rent control; Ohio requires a one-year lot-agreement offer and 30 days' increase notice but lets a tenancy end at term; Wisconsin requires one-year leases and 28 days' notice at renewal; Alaska requires 270 days' change-of-use notice with a May-to-October quit window; Texas gives 60 days for nonrenewal and 180 for a change in land use; South Carolina, Indiana (180-day closure notice), Kentucky and Missouri (60-day lot notice, 120-day change-of-use notice with a rent freeze) set few or no park-specific tenancy rules. A tenancy may be ended only for a listed cause in New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wisconsin and Alaska, and without cause in Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri. Federal protections already required by state law range from 0 of 8 (Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri) to 6 of 8 (Rhode Island). Every figure was read from the state's official statute site (New Jersey from the Legislature's plain-text statutes export and the chaptered acts; Indiana from the 2025 and 2026 editions of the Indiana Code; Pennsylvania from the unconsolidated statutes and the 2012 enacting act; Texas from the Legislative Council's text)." }, { "version": "1.12.0", "published_at": "2026-08-19T00:20:00Z", "title": "Mobile home park and manufactured-housing community law: twelve more states — Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Virginia (24 of 50)", "summary": "Twelve more states join the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic, taking it to 24 of 50: Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Virginia, each with the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. Headline figures: lot-rent increase notice of 90 days in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine and Nevada, 60 in Kansas, Maryland (rising to 90 for every resident on October 1, 2026), New Mexico and Virginia, and none in Michigan or Montana; no statewide limit on lot-rent increases in any of the twelve (Arizona instead pays a resident up to $12,500 or $20,000 from a state fund to move after an increase above 10% plus inflation; Maine caps increases at once per calendar year since July 29, 2026 and routes above-benchmark increases to mediation); a tenancy may be ended only for a listed cause in Arizona, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Virginia, while Idaho (at the end of a term, on 90 days' notice), Iowa (90 days), Kansas (60 days) and Montana (any legitimate business reason on 90 days' notice) allow ending a lot tenancy without cause; closure notice from 6 months (Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia) to 12 months (Illinois, Maine, Maryland), with none in Iowa, Kansas or Michigan; a right of first refusal on a park sale in Illinois (through an incorporated homeowners' association), Maine and Virginia (rebuilt by 2026 acts effective July 1, 2026, with the locality holding a second right), an opportunity to negotiate in Maryland, notice only in Idaho and Nevada, and nothing in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Montana or New Mexico; relocation payments in Arizona (state fund), Maryland (a year's rent, parks over 10 sites), Maine (renovation evictions), Nevada (park owner pays to move the home up to 150 miles or its fair market value) and Virginia ($5,000 on a sale to a redeveloper). Federal protections already required by state law range from 1 of 8 (Montana) to 6 of 8 (Arizona). Maryland's 2026 chapter 754 (effective October 1, 2026) is recorded on six rules as a dated change while the records state today's law; Maine's 2026 chapters 688 and 691 and Virginia's 2026 chapters 598 and 599 are already in force and encoded. Every figure was read from the state's official statute site (New Mexico from the Compilation Commission's official text; Michigan includes the Manufactured Housing Commission's administrative rules)." }, { "version": "1.11.0", "published_at": "2026-08-18T20:15:00Z", "title": "Mobile home park and manufactured-housing community law: a sixth topic, published for twelve states — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington", "summary": "A new topic covers the tenancy between a manufactured-home community and a resident who owns the home and rents the lot: 54 rules per state on scope, lot rent and fees, the lease and park rules, termination, closure and change of use, sale of the park, and sale of the home in place, each recorded as a state rule with its citation or a stated absence with what governs instead, plus a table showing which of the eight federal lender (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) tenant protections the state's own law already requires. Twelve states publish in this release; the hub states that coverage and the remaining states follow in waves. Headline figures: lot-rent increase notice of 90 days in California, Delaware (90 to 120), Florida, New York, Oregon and Washington, 60 in Colorado, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Vermont, 30 in Connecticut and Massachusetts; statewide limits on lot-rent increases in four states — Delaware (3.5% plus half of a 24-month CPI figure, never above 6.1%, made permanent July 23, 2026), New York (3%, up to 6% on a stated justification), Oregon (6% above 30 spaces; the lesser of 10% or 7% plus CPI at 30 or fewer, since Oregon Laws 2025 ch. 387) and Washington (5%, none in the first 12 months, no sunset); just cause to end a lot tenancy in all twelve; closure notice from 6 months (California, Florida) to 24 months (Massachusetts, New York, Washington); a right of first refusal on a park sale in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts and New York, an opportunity to negotiate in Colorado, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, a closure-triggered right in Minnesota and notice only in California. Federal protections already required by state law range from 3 of 8 (Minnesota) to 8 of 8 (Washington). Every figure was read from the state's official statute site (Massachusetts includes the Attorney General's regulations, 940 CMR 10.00); Washington's RCW 59.20.300 notice-of-sale section is repealed (2025 c 205) and California's Civil Code § 798.56 was renumbered effective January 1, 2026, both reflected in the records." }, { "version": "1.10.0", "published_at": "2026-08-18T01:30:00Z", "title": "Ten more California local rent-regulation records join the dataset — Los Angeles County (unincorporated), Santa Ana, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Inglewood, Pomona, Hayward, Richmond, Mountain View, and Culver City", "summary": "Ten California records, each with its own citations, verification date, and current figures with the window they apply to. Los Angeles County (unincorporated areas only — Chapter 8.52; 60% of inflation with a 3% ceiling, 4% for small landlords and 5% for luxury units; 1.919% / 2.919% / 3.919% for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027; unpaid rent must exceed two months of federal Fair Market Rent before a nonpayment eviction since April 16, 2026; registration by September 30 at $90 or $30 per unit for 2026-27). Santa Ana (Chapter 8, Article XIX — the lesser of 3% or 80% of inflation, 2.42% through August 31, 2026 and 2.87% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027; eviction rules from 30 days of occupancy; three months' rent as relocation; voters approved the ordinance as Measure CC on November 5, 2024, so changes need voter approval; the codified seat split for the Rental Housing Board differs from how the city now describes the board). West Hollywood (Title 17 — 75% of May-to-May inflation with a 3% ceiling and no saving of skipped increases, 2.75% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027; the coverage line is July 1, 1979; 19 eviction grounds with relocation payments of $9,763 to $32,547 for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027; deposit interest 4.3% for 2025). Beverly Hills (two chapters — Chapter 6 units may rise by the greater of 3% or inflation, 3.6% set in June 2026; Chapter 5 units by 8% or inflation whichever is less, 3.35% posted August 12, 2026 and recalculated monthly; the Rent Stabilization Commission was repealed effective January 3, 2025; relocation $8,636.20 to $17,283.53 plus $2,000 from July 1, 2026; $74 per unit for 2026-27). Inglewood (Housing Protection Ordinance — 3% or inflation, whichever is greater, on properties of five or more units; 5% plus inflation or 10%, whichever is lower, on four or fewer; the 3.7% inflation figure published May 12, 2026 gives 3.7% and 8.7%; relocation amounts fixed in the ordinance). Pomona (Ordinance No. 4359 — a flat 5% for January 1 – December 31, 2026 with no carry-forward and no rent registry; the ordinance expires December 31, 2026 unless the City Council votes to fund it; relocation $6,164 to $15,377). Hayward (Chapter 12, Article 1 — a 5% threshold once per 12 months, above which a tenant may petition and the landlord must justify the increase; banking to a 10% total; coverage line July 1, 1979; no rent board and no annual figure; $66 or $32 per unit for 2026-27). Richmond (Measure L as amended by Measure P — the lesser of 60% of inflation or 3%, 1.5% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027 and up to 6.5% with saved-up increases; $261 or $149 per unit for 2026-27). Mountain View (Charter Article XVII — 100% of inflation with a 2% floor and 5% ceiling, 2.5% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027; single-family homes, condominiums and duplexes are outside the whole article; $143 per unit for 2026-27). Culver City (Chapter 15.09 — inflation with a 2% floor and 5% ceiling, 3.25% for June 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 as the city moves from monthly to annual figures; renamed the Rent Stabilization Ordinance effective February 11, 2026; $177 per unit from July 1, 2026). The California hub now names eighteen local records; the metro lookup joins the new records to the Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas." }, { "version": "1.9.0", "published_at": "2026-08-17T18:00:00Z", "title": "Eight local rent-regulation records join the dataset — Elizabeth, Paterson, Bayonne, East Orange, Atlantic City, and Passaic (NJ), plus verified absences for Boston and Seattle", "summary": "Six New Jersey records. Elizabeth (Chapter 5.70 — 3% a year, or $20, whichever is less, after Ordinance No. 6160 of July 28, 2025 restored the dollar ceiling; the ordinance also moves the chapter’s expiration to December 31, 2027; a 20% turnover increase but no vacancy decontrol; annual registration by March 1 as a precondition to any increase; the published code and the city’s January 2026 letter still show only the 3%). Paterson (Chapter 381 — fixed 5%, 3.5% for tenants 65 or older or disabled, and 2.5% for those tenants at the lowest incomes; buildings of two or more units, three or more if owner-occupied; base date December 23, 1999; the tax surcharge was repealed in 1985; no general vacancy decontrol). Bayonne (Chapter 16, rewritten July 19, 2023 — covers only tenancies continuous since June 30, 2011 in buildings of five or more units; consumer-price-index increase capped at 5.5% and approved by the Rent Control Office; vacancy is permanent decontrol; a January 2024 extension clause ran to December 31, 2024 while the city continues to administer the chapter in 2026). East Orange (Chapter 218 — 4% for a sitting tenant per 12 months, 2% for qualified senior and, since April 2025, disabled tenants, and on turnover the lesser of 5% or the consumer-price-index change; buildings of three or fewer units exempt; decontrol is an application-and-inspection process with a 10-year bar on repeat; a June 2026 ordinance re-priced the decontrol inspection fees). Atlantic City (Chapter 41 — the consumer-price-index change for the 12 months before the lease ends, with no percentage ceiling in the ordinance and full vacancy decontrol; the index is issued quarterly by the Office of Landlord-Tenant Affairs and not published online; buildings of three or more units built after June 25, 1987 exempt). Passaic (Chapter 231, renamed Rent Stabilization in January 2025 — 3% a year effective September 22, 2025 after cuts from 8% and 6% earlier that year, with an itemized property-tax share on top; the cap follows the unit on vacancy; tenants in place since December 9, 1999 or earlier stay under the older consumer-price-index or $25-a-month limit; the 3% section runs six years). Two verified absences: Boston (no rent control — barred by Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40P; the City Council’s March 8, 2023 home rule petition died in the Legislature in September 2024 and the statewide rent-stabilization ballot question was struck from the November 2026 ballot by the Supreme Judicial Court on June 23, 2026; the city’s condominium-conversion protections, with a 10%-or-inflation limit during notice periods, run to December 31, 2026) and Seattle (no local rent control — barred by RCW 35.21.830; the statewide cap under RCW 59.18.700 applies at 9.683% for 2026 and 10% for 2027; the city’s 180-day notice, relocation-assistance, just-cause, deposit, late-fee and registration rules are recorded). The New Jersey hub now names ten local records; the metro lookup joins the new records to the New York, Boston and Seattle metropolitan areas." }, { "version": "1.8.2", "published_at": "2026-08-16T17:30:00Z", "title": "Metro lookup re-ranked by renter households (ACS 2024) — Buffalo and New Orleans join, Birmingham and Grand Rapids leave", "summary": "The metro lookup (metros.json) now ranks the 50 largest metropolitan areas by renter-occupied households from the Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey 1-year estimates (table B25003), the basis it was designed for, instead of total resident population; each entry now carries renter households, total households, and the Vintage 2024 population, and the ranking source is stated in the file. Membership shifts by two: Buffalo–Cheektowaga (NY) and New Orleans–Metairie (LA) enter, Birmingham (AL) and Grand Rapids (MI) leave. New York’s ETPA opt-in framework record is now listed inside the New York metro alongside the city record, since thirty-nine of its forty participating municipalities are in Nassau, Rockland, and Westchester counties. No state or local figure, date, citation, or legal claim changes." }, { "version": "1.8.1", "published_at": "2026-08-16T15:35:00Z", "title": "Local records: the status paragraph now opens \"In force today\" instead of \"Active\"", "summary": "Presentation change to the 21 local rent-regulation records that are in force: the status paragraph shown under \"What is in force\" now opens \"In force today.\" (with the same variants: \"In force today, with an end date.\" for Sacramento; \"In force today as an opt-in framework.\" for New York’s ETPA framework; \"In force today — three overlapping systems.\" for New York City) in place of the bare word \"Active.\", which did not tell a reader what was active. No figure, date, citation, or legal claim changes." }, { "version": "1.8.0", "published_at": "2026-08-16T15:10:00Z", "title": "Seven local rent-regulation records join the dataset — San Jose, Sacramento, Berkeley, Santa Monica, and Pasadena (CA), plus verified absences for Chicago and Minneapolis — and a 50-metro posture lookup", "summary": "Five California records: San Jose (Apartment Rent Ordinance — a fixed 5% cap once per 12 months for buildings of three or more units first occupied on or before September 7, 1979, with the Tenant Protection Ordinance’s thirteen eviction grounds reaching every building of three or more units regardless of age); Sacramento (Tenant Protection Program — 8.6% for July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 under a 5%-plus-inflation formula capped at 10%, pre-February 1, 1995 multi-unit buildings, seven just-cause grounds after 12 months, chapter extended to December 31, 2029); Berkeley (Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Just Cause Ordinance — 1.0% Annual General Adjustment for calendar 2026 at 65% of Bay Area inflation with a 5% ceiling set by Measure BB in 2024, three coverage tiers, owner move-in relocation of $19,413 plus $6,471 for qualifying households effective January 1, 2026); Santa Monica (Charter Article XVIII — 2.6% capped at $70 a month for September 1, 2026 through August 31, 2027, 3% ceiling under Measure RC, buildings constructed after April 10, 1979 outside the Charter, relocation schedule effective July 1, 2026); Pasadena (Measure H — 2.25% for October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026 and 2.5% for October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027 at 75% of local inflation rounded to the quarter percent, pre-1995 multi-unit rent cap with eviction protections reaching nearly all rentals; the Court of Appeal’s December 2025 decision striking two provisions is final after the Supreme Court denied review April 1, 2026). Each California record states how the local cap, the statewide 5%-plus-inflation cap, and the Costa-Hawkins Act divide that city’s housing stock. Two verified absences: Chicago (no rent control — barred by the Rent Control Preemption Act, 50 ILCS 825, unchanged since 1997; the city’s landlord-tenant ordinance regulates deposits, notice periods, and late fees, not rent) and Minneapolis (voters authorized the Council to regulate rents in 2021 by 53.21%, but no ordinance has been enacted; the 2023 attempt failed on June 28, 2023). New export: metros.json maps the 50 largest metropolitan areas (Census Vintage 2024 population estimates) to the verified preemption posture of every state each spans and to any local record inside it — a lookup over the existing records, not new claims. The California hub now names eight local records." }, { "version": "1.7.0", "published_at": "2026-08-16T12:55:00Z", "title": "Georgia: dispossessory-record sealing flagged for January 1, 2027 (SB 406)", "summary": "Georgia's record now flags SB 406 (Ga. L. 2026, p. 988), the Georgia Property Owners' Bill of Rights Act: from January 1, 2027, new O.C.G.A. 44-7-50(e) lets a court, on motion and after a hearing, make the records of a dispossessory proceeding unavailable to the public when the tenant won, when the tenant has paid the judgment in full including interest and costs, or seven years after a dismissal or a paid judgment; the landlord may still pursue amounts owed separately. The rest of the act concerns owners' associations. The Georgia eviction record's answers do not change until the provision takes effect. Sources last checked: August 16, 2026." }, { "version": "1.6.0", "published_at": "2026-08-13T19:30:00Z", "title": "California anchor cities join the local rent-regulation records: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland, plus Stamford, Connecticut", "summary": "Four local rent-regulation records join the dataset. Los Angeles (Rent Stabilization Ordinance): 3% allowable increase for July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2027 under the formula rewritten effective February 2, 2026 — 90% of local inflation with a 1% floor and 4% ceiling — covering buildings first occupied on or before October 1, 1978. San Francisco (Rent Ordinance): 1.6% allowable increase for March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027 (60% of Bay Area inflation, never more than 7%), covering most buildings first occupied on or before June 13, 1979, with eviction protection reaching nearly every rental in the city. Oakland (Rent Adjustment Program): 2.3% annual CPI increase for August 1, 2026 through July 31, 2027 (60% of inflation, at most 3%), covering most pre-1983 apartments, with any larger increase requiring city approval first. Each California record states how the local cap, the statewide 5%-plus-inflation cap, and the Costa-Hawkins Act divide that city's housing stock. Stamford, Connecticut's fair rent commission — operating since 1990, before the state mandate — is recorded under Connecticut's fair-rent framework. The state pages for California and New Jersey now state the coverage boundary for local records: these are the largest regimes, not an exhaustive list of every municipality with an ordinance." }, { "version": "1.5.0", "published_at": "2026-08-13T13:30:00Z", "title": "Local rent regulation records: 13 verified city, county, and framework regimes plus two verified absences; Connecticut fair-rent threshold corrected to 15,000", "summary": "The dataset now carries verified local rent-regulation records where local regulation operates: Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, and Fort Lee (NJ); New York City's three overlapping systems and the ETPA opt-in framework covering 40 municipalities outside the city (NY); Montgomery County, Prince George's County, and Takoma Park (MD); Portland and South Portland (ME); St. Paul (MN); and Connecticut's municipal fair rent commission framework. Each record states the regime's rent cap, coverage and exemptions, vacancy rules, registration duties, and current published figures — every figure with the period it applies to and the official source that published it, including New York City's 0% rent freeze for stabilized leases commencing October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. Two localities widely described as regulating rents are recorded as verified absences with citations: Providence, RI (2026 ordinance vetoed, override failed) and New Shoreham, RI (no such ordinance exists). One correction ships with the release: Connecticut's fair-rent-commission mandate now reflects the threshold cut from 25,000 to 15,000 residents effective January 1, 2026 (Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 25-1, § 35), with newly covered municipalities given until January 1, 2028 and joint or regional commissions now satisfying the mandate." }, { "version": "1.4.0", "published_at": "2026-08-13T00:10:00Z", "title": "Local rent regulation preemption posture added for all 50 states: whether cities and counties can regulate rents, cited to statute", "summary": "Every state record now states whether cities and counties can regulate rents. The new preemption posture — preempted, not preempted, or no express statute — carries pinpoint statute citations, a plain-language summary, a qualifier where the posture is conditioned, and its own verification date. The count: 31 states bar local rent regulation by statute, 9 do not (in some the pathway is conditioned on voter approval or a declared emergency), and 10 have no express statute. Two corrections ship with the pass: Louisiana is no longer described as preempting local rent control — no Louisiana statute expressly addresses it — and Texas's answer now states the actual mechanism: a city may adopt rent control only during a declared housing emergency caused by a disaster and only with the governor's approval, a pathway no Texas city has ever used. Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Hawaii are restated on the finer three-way scale, and the effective date of Arkansas's 2025 preemption amendment is pinned to August 5, 2025." }, { "version": "1.3.0", "published_at": "2026-08-12T19:45:00Z", "title": "In-force 2025-2026 laws encoded across eleven states: Massachusetts' federal-shutdown eviction moratorium, Virginia's Eviction Diversion Program, Illinois' criminal-trespass carve-out, and New York's rent-stabilized deposit rules among them", "summary": "Eleven state records gain coverage of laws already in force that the pages had not yet described. Massachusetts: the standing federal-shutdown eviction moratorium (G.L. c. 239, § 17, broadened July 1, 2026 to partial shutdowns) now appears on the eviction, late-fee, and deposit pages. Virginia: four chapters effective July 1, 2026 — the Eviction Diversion Program rewrite with program information attached to every summons, the removal of the pay-into-court gate on the habitability defense, the bar on bifurcating contested rent claims, and the summons legal-resource insert. Illinois: the eviction article's express carve-out for police criminal-trespass enforcement, in force since January 1, 2026. Washington: every termination notice must state a vacate-or-comply date, and mailed service must be posted from within the state. New York: the 2025 rewrite of GOL 7-107 extending deposit protections to rent-stabilized units as leases renew, and the 2025 bounced-check fee rule. Connecticut: a correction — move-in and move-out fees have been banned since October 2023; the deposit page previously said no statute addressed them. Plus South Carolina, Tennessee, Minnesota, Louisiana, Rhode Island, and Georgia updates listed in the changelog feed." }, { "version": "1.2.0", "published_at": "2026-08-12T19:30:00Z", "title": "2026 new-law sweep: corrections for Colorado and Virginia, South Carolina's Act 184 recorded, pending-law flags for Arizona", "summary": "A full sweep of every state's 2026 enacted laws against this dataset. Two corrections: Colorado's seller-rent-back exception to the two-month deposit cap (SB26-054) operates on and after January 1, 2027 - the record previously said November 1, 2026 - and Virginia's HB 95 payment-plan overlay takes effect July 1, 2027, not January 1, 2027, and is not yet in force. One law newly recorded: South Carolina's Act No. 184 of 2026, in force since May 18, 2026, which pauses deposit return until the end of the lease on a protected tenant's domestic-violence early termination and adds a five-day termination notice against a remaining perpetrator; the record had reported the bill as dead. Arizona's eviction page now flags two chapters effective September 12, 2026, and Nebraska's eviction page notes a 2026 amendment to the abandoned-property disposition sections it mentions." }, { "version": "1.1.6", "published_at": "2026-08-12T14:15:00Z", "title": "Source maintenance: citations repointed and source-status notes refreshed for NC, ID, LA, and DE", "summary": "Weekly source-verification pass; no legal figure or claim changed. North Carolina's late-fees citation to G.S. 42-46 now points to the statute page on ncleg.gov, the legislature's current host. Idaho's three citations to the Attorney General's Landlord and Tenant Manual now point to the July 2026 edition, with the cited guidance confirmed unchanged. Louisiana's security-deposit record now notes that the codified text of R.S. 9:3251 carries the 2026 Act 63 amendment the record already incorporated from the enrolled act. Delaware's security-deposit record gains a citation to 25 Del. C. § 5125, where the 2026 key-surrender law (85 Del. Laws c. 295) has been codified, resolving the section-numbering collision the record had flagged." }, { "version": "1.1.5", "published_at": "2026-08-11T18:45:00Z", "title": "Reader-answer pass complete: all 50 states' common-question answers open with a direct lead paragraph", "summary": "Presentation-only pass over the remaining 24 state records (MT through WY alphabetically; VA shipped in 1.1.4). Every long text field that feeds a common-question answer was restructured into a short direct-answer lead paragraph followed by the full rules, completing the restructuring begun in 1.1.4 — all 50 states now carry the lead/detail structure in the exports and render capped answers on the pages. Residual verification-workflow narration in reader-facing fields was restated as plain statements of law (one Mississippi note was aligned to the same standard), and derivation arrow-chains were rewritten as prose. No source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed." }, { "version": "1.1.4", "published_at": "2026-08-11T17:45:00Z", "title": "Reader-answer pass, first 26 states: common-question answers capped at a direct lead paragraph", "summary": "Presentation-only pass over 26 state records (AK through MS alphabetically, plus VA). Every long text field that feeds a common-question answer was restructured into a short direct-answer lead paragraph followed by the full rules, and the page templates now render the lead paragraph as the FAQ and structured-data answer while the complete text remains in the fact table and in these exports (as paragraph-structured strings). Residual verification-workflow narration in reader-facing fields was restated as plain statements of law; derivation arrow-chains were rewritten as prose. No source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed. The remaining 24 states follow in the next release." }, { "version": "1.1.3", "published_at": "2026-08-11T14:15:00Z", "title": "Editorial pass: every answer now opens with a direct plain-language response, all 50 states", "summary": "Editorial-only pass over all 50 state records. Common-question answers that opened with procedure chains, citations, or technical labels were restructured so the first sentence is a direct plain-language answer (eviction timelines now lead with the day count), and remaining data-entry vocabulary in notes and rules text was rewritten in reader terms. No source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed." }, { "version": "1.1.2", "published_at": "2026-08-10T13:10:00Z", "title": "Editorial pass: verification-method descriptions rewritten in source-focused language across 39 states", "summary": "Editorial-only pass over the verification-method descriptions and related notes of 39 state records: 112 phrases describing the mechanics of page retrieval were rewritten in plain, source-focused language, so each record's verification prose reads on what was read, where, and when. No source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed." }, { "version": "1.1.1", "published_at": "2026-08-09T14:45:00Z", "title": "Editorial pass: notes entries rewritten in plain language across seven states", "summary": "Editorial-only pass over the notes sections of the AR, GA, ID, KS, KY, MI, and NC records: 26 entries that still referred to internal data-field names were rewritten in plain language so every caveat reads naturally on the page and in the exports. No legal figure, claim, citation, or verification date changed. A validation gate was added so field-name terminology can never appear in reader-facing text again." }, { "version": "1.1.0", "published_at": "2026-08-05T19:15:00Z", "title": "Targeted verification pass: 12 internal-contradiction items resolved across 12 states", "summary": "Targeted verification pass over every recorded internal contradiction a reader could find in the exported JSON: 12 work items across SD, WV, MT/VA, NV, NE, MO, MS, TN, WI, ND, WA, and UT, each re-verified against official statute or enrolled-act text. Eight produced corrections (a stale repealed-law claim recast, mis-attributed bills and figures fixed, counts and scope statements aligned); four confirmed the record correct and upgraded its sourcing (enrolled-act citations and direct statute reads added)." }, { "version": "1.0.0", "published_at": "2026-08-05T12:45:30Z", "title": "Initial public release of the dataset export", "summary": "First versioned public release: all 50 states, five topics (security deposits, rent increase notice, late fees, entry notice, eviction process), every record statute-cited and verification-dated, notes fields reader-facing site-wide. Bulk and per-state JSON, schema, version manifest, and this changelog feed published under the evaluation license." } ], "entries": [ { "date": "2026-08-26", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "AZ", "CT", "FL", "IA", "IL", "IN", "KS", "KY", "LA", "ME", "MI", "MO", "MT", "ND", "NE", "NH", "NJ", "OH", "OK", "PA", "RI", "SC", "SD", "TX" ], "topics": [ "application_screening_fees" ], "summary": "Rental application and screening fee laws for 24 more states (AZ, CT, FL, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MI, MO, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TX), taking the topic to 36 of 50 — fee caps and bans, actual-cost limits, receipts, refunds, disclosure and denial-notice duties, reusable screening reports, holding deposits, fee-transparency rules, and penalties, each verified against official state statutes; states with no rules are published as verified absences stating what governs instead." }, { "date": "2026-08-25", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "WA", "OR", "CA", "CO", "MN", "NY", "MA", "VT", "DE", "VA", "WI", "MD" ], "topics": [ "application_screening_fees" ], "summary": "New topic: rental application and screening fee laws for the first 12 states (WA, OR, CA, CO, MN, NY, MA, VT, DE, VA, WI, MD) — fee caps and bans, actual-cost limits, receipts, refunds, disclosure and denial-notice duties, reusable screening reports, holding deposits, fee-transparency rules, and penalties, each verified against official state statutes." }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "AK", "AR", "AZ", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DE", "FL", "GA", "HI", "IA", "ID", "IL", "KS", "KY", "MA", "MD", "MI", "MN", "MS", "NC", "NE", "NH", "NJ", "NM", "NV", "NY", "OH", "OK", "PA", "RI", "SC", "TN", "VA", "WI", "WV" ], "topics": [], "summary": "Every pending-legislation flag now carries three machine-readable fields alongside its plain-language status: lifecycle (introduced, passed_one_chamber, passed_both_chambers, signed, vetoed, dead, or none_pending — the measure's stage as of the flag's checked date), signed_on (the signing date where the official record states one), and effective_on (the date the flagged change becomes operative law, where known). All 104 flags — on state records and mobile home park records — were typed from the official legislative history already stated on each flag. The published schema at /data/schema.json documents the fields. No legal figure or claim changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/schema.json" }, { "date": "2026-08-24", "type": "correction", "states": [ "CO" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "A spent pending-legislation flag was removed from Colorado's mobile home park record: House Bill 26-1145 (mobile home park water quality), signed May 4, 2026, took effect August 12, 2026, so it is not a coming change — it is the law in force, and the record already states the rent-increase consequence of a missed water-quality deadline under C.R.S. § 38-12-204. The page's pending-measures banner no longer lists it.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/colorado/" }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "WV", "WY" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "Wyoming and West Virginia complete the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic: all 50 states now carry the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. West Virginia has a dedicated article for factory-built home rentals: every tenancy must be in a written agreement that contains the text of the article itself, a community owner may not end a tenancy for the first twelve months after a single-section home is placed on the site (five years for a multi-section home) except for one of four listed causes, ending a tenancy without cause afterward takes at least three months' written notice with the reason stated, and ending more than twenty-five tenancies in one community within eighteen months takes six months' notice to each tenant, backed by treble damages or a year's rent. Entrance fees, unlisted fees and sale commissions are barred and a resident's sale of the home in place is protected, but no advance notice is required before a lot-rent increase. Wyoming is the opposite pole of the whole dataset: it has no community tenancy act, and its general residential act expressly excludes a mobile home lot from the definition of a residential rental unit, so its habitability, deposit and abandoned-property rules do not reach a rented space. The one Wyoming statute written for these rentals is a lien: a lessor of a house-trailer site holds a lien on the home for unpaid rent, may post notice on the home and remove it after thirty days, though not while the resident lives in it. Eviction runs through forcible entry and detainer after rent is three days late, on three days' written notice to quit." }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "AL", "AR", "GA", "HI", "LA", "MS", "NC", "ND", "NE", "OK", "SD", "TN" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "Twelve more states join the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic, taking it to 48 of 50: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Tennessee, each with the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. Two of the twelve have park-specific statutes: Nebraska’s Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act (60 days’ notice of a rent increase and of a rules change, a protected right to sell the home in place at the resident’s own price with a ten-day approval window, a seven-day nonpayment notice, no closure or sale regime, and since September 3, 2025 a statewide bar on local rent control), and North Dakota’s mobile home park tenant-rights section (90 days’ notice of a lot-rent increase, a six-month rent freeze after a park is sold where rent rose in the prior 60 days, 30 days’ notice of a rules change, 180 days’ notice of a change in use, a $3 cap on utility administration fees with metering required, a bar on forcing a resident to sell the home to the park, and a civil penalty of at least $2,500 enforced in small claims or district court). The other ten have no community tenancy act and are published as verified absences under the general landlord-tenant law, each naming the provisions that do reach a rented lot: North Carolina’s 60-day notice to quit for a manufactured-home space and 180-day conversion notice to the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency; South Dakota’s 90-day notice to vacate and remove the home where land is developed for another use; Oklahoma’s general act, whose definitions expressly take in a manufactured-home site, space or lot so that its 30-day termination, five-day nonpayment demand, 45-day deposit return and one-day entry notice apply to the lot; Georgia’s ten-day post-judgment removal window and Abandoned Mobile Home Act; Mississippi’s 72-hour post-warrant removal window; Louisiana’s lender-notification and abandoned-home statutes; Arkansas’s manufactured-home-on-leased-land abandonment statute; Alabama’s abandoned-manufactured-dwelling chapter; and, for Hawaii and Tennessee, the general code alone. Local regulation of lot rents is barred by statute in ten of the twelve (all but Hawaii, which leaves rent regulation to the counties, and Louisiana, which has no statute either way), taking the preempted count to 30 of 48. None of the twelve requires a cause to end a lot tenancy. Federal protections already required by state law: Nebraska 3 of 8, North Dakota and South Dakota 1 of 8, the rest 0 of 8. Every figure was read from the state’s official statute text: the Nebraska, North Dakota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Louisiana legislatures’ own statute pages and PDFs, the Hawaii Revised Statutes as served by the Legislature, the Alabama Legislature’s Code of Alabama service, and the official public-access Codes of Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas; every 2025 and 2026 session was checked for a new act and none was found.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/" }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "CO" ], "topics": [ "late_fees" ], "summary": "Colorado's late-fee record now states the fee prohibitions of C.R.S. § 6-1-737(4), in force since January 1, 2026 (HB25-1090, ch. 94, read on the official 2026 Colorado Revised Statutes): no late or overdue fee on any charge that is not rent; no payment-processing fee unless a cost-free way to pay is reasonably accessible; no fee or charge that rises more than two percent over a lease of one year or less (utilities excepted); no fees for property taxes, common-area maintenance, goods or services not provided, or the landlord's own obligations; utility charges limited to the provider's bill except under § 38-12-801(3)(a)(VI) or the ratio-utility-billing rules of § 6-1-737(4.5) (HB26-1013, effective March 26, 2026). The § 38-12-105 caps (greater of $50 or 5%, seven days late, once per payment) are unchanged.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/late-fees/colorado/" }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "DE" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process", "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "Pending-legislation rows flag Delaware SS 1 for SB 116 (85 Del. Laws c. 436), signed August 18, 2026 and effective September 1, 2026: the 25 Del. C. § 5502(a) nonpayment demand period rises from not less than 5 to not less than 7 days and the notice states that the landlord may file to terminate; payment of all rent due by or on behalf of the tenant before filing bars a nonpayment possession action and after filing bars maintaining it, without the former reservation-of-rights condition, and the landlord may not refuse rent payments (method may be limited to lease-accepted forms before judgment and to certified check or money order after); new § 5716A gives the tenant a right of redemption in any nonpayment summary-possession case, for a rental unit or a manufactured-home lot, by paying all past-due amounts the court determines plus costs and fees at any time before the writ is executed, unavailable after two nonpayment possession judgments in the prior 18 months; § 7016(b)(3) for manufactured home communities is rewritten in parallel. The figures shown state the law in force before September 1, 2026.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/delaware/" }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "CO", "MD" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process", "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Citation links re-pointed, no claim changed: Colorado's eviction record cites the 2026 Colorado Revised Statutes download page of the Office of Legislative Legal Services (the 2025 page now returns 404; the 2026 edition is current through the Second Regular Session of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly); Maryland's security-deposit record cites the relaunched DHCD rental security deposit calculator at its new address.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/colorado/" }, { "date": "2026-08-23", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "NJ" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Passaic, New Jersey: the citation to the September 11, 2025 Rent Leveling Board minutes (effective date of Ordinance No. 2494-25) now points at the city's re-published copy of the same minutes; the earlier file address returns 404. No claim changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/localities.json" }, { "date": "2026-08-19", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "SC" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "Citation label fix on the South Carolina mobile home park record: one citation to S.C. Code Ann. § 40-29-5 carried a pinpoint that repeated the section number and would have rendered twice; the pinpoint is removed. No legal figure or claim changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/south-carolina/" }, { "date": "2026-08-19", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "AK", "IN", "KY", "MO", "NJ", "OH", "PA", "RI", "SC", "TX", "UT", "WI" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "Twelve more states join the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic, taking it to 36 of 50: Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin, each with the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. Headline figures: New Jersey now limits lot-rent increases to 3.5% over any 12-month period (P.L.2025, c.85, operative March 1, 2026), the fifth statewide limit in the dataset, and its January 2026 Manufactured Home Park Protection Act gives residents a true right of first refusal (51% consent, 120 days); Rhode Island requires 60 days' notice of a rent or fee change, a one-year lease, a year's certified-mail notice plus up to $4,000 relocation on a closure by sale, and a right of first refusal through an incorporated 51% association; Pennsylvania's Manufactured Home Community Rights Act limits rent changes to once in 12 months with 60 days' notice, allows eviction for four reasons only, and sets 2026 relocation ceilings of $5,649.68 and $8,474.52 on closure; Utah gives nine months' closure notice and bars local rent control; Ohio requires a one-year lot-agreement offer and 30 days' increase notice but lets a tenancy end at term; Wisconsin requires one-year leases and 28 days' notice at renewal; Alaska requires 270 days' change-of-use notice with a May-to-October quit window; Texas gives 60 days for nonrenewal and 180 for a change in land use; South Carolina, Indiana (180-day closure notice), Kentucky and Missouri (60-day lot notice, 120-day change-of-use notice with a rent freeze) set few or no park-specific tenancy rules. A tenancy may be ended only for a listed cause in New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Utah, Wisconsin and Alaska, and without cause in Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri. Federal protections already required by state law range from 0 of 8 (Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri) to 6 of 8 (Rhode Island). Every figure was read from the state's official statute site (New Jersey from the Legislature's plain-text statutes export and the chaptered acts; Indiana from the 2025 and 2026 editions of the Indiana Code; Pennsylvania from the unconsolidated statutes and the 2012 enacting act; Texas from the Legislative Council's text).", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/" }, { "date": "2026-08-18", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "AZ", "IA", "ID", "IL", "KS", "MD", "ME", "MI", "MT", "NM", "NV", "VA" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "Twelve more states join the mobile home park and manufactured-housing community topic, taking it to 24 of 50: Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico and Virginia, each with the same 54 rules (a state rule with its citation, or a stated absence with what governs instead) and the eight-protection federal lender table. Headline figures: lot-rent increase notice of 90 days in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maine and Nevada, 60 in Kansas, Maryland (rising to 90 for every resident on October 1, 2026), New Mexico and Virginia, and none in Michigan or Montana; no statewide limit on lot-rent increases in any of the twelve (Arizona instead pays a resident up to $12,500 or $20,000 from a state fund to move after an increase above 10% plus inflation; Maine caps increases at once per calendar year since July 29, 2026 and routes above-benchmark increases to mediation); a tenancy may be ended only for a listed cause in Arizona, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico and Virginia, while Idaho (at the end of a term, on 90 days' notice), Iowa (90 days), Kansas (60 days) and Montana (any legitimate business reason on 90 days' notice) allow ending a lot tenancy without cause; closure notice from 6 months (Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia) to 12 months (Illinois, Maine, Maryland), with none in Iowa, Kansas or Michigan; a right of first refusal on a park sale in Illinois (through an incorporated homeowners' association), Maine and Virginia (rebuilt by 2026 acts effective July 1, 2026, with the locality holding a second right), an opportunity to negotiate in Maryland, notice only in Idaho and Nevada, and nothing in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Montana or New Mexico; relocation payments in Arizona (state fund), Maryland (a year's rent, parks over 10 sites), Maine (renovation evictions), Nevada (park owner pays to move the home up to 150 miles or its fair market value) and Virginia ($5,000 on a sale to a redeveloper). Federal protections already required by state law range from 1 of 8 (Montana) to 6 of 8 (Arizona). Maryland's 2026 chapter 754 (effective October 1, 2026) is recorded on six rules as a dated change while the records state today's law; Maine's 2026 chapters 688 and 691 and Virginia's 2026 chapters 598 and 599 are already in force and encoded. Every figure was read from the state's official statute site (New Mexico from the Compilation Commission's official text; Michigan includes the Manufactured Housing Commission's administrative rules).", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/" }, { "date": "2026-08-18", "type": "correction", "states": [ "CA", "CO" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "Submetering rule for California and Colorado restated: neither state requires a park to meter lots individually, but both regulate how a separately metered or submetered utility may be billed (California Civil Code §§ 798.40–798.41; Colorado § 38-12-212.4), so the cell now reads as a state rule rather than an absence, matching how the same question is answered for the other states.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/" }, { "date": "2026-08-18", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "CA", "CO", "CT", "DE", "FL", "MA", "MN", "NH", "NY", "OR", "VT", "WA" ], "topics": [ "mobile_home_parks" ], "summary": "A new topic covers the tenancy between a manufactured-home community and a resident who owns the home and rents the lot: 54 rules per state on scope, lot rent and fees, the lease and park rules, termination, closure and change of use, sale of the park, and sale of the home in place, each recorded as a state rule with its citation or a stated absence with what governs instead, plus a table showing which of the eight federal lender (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) tenant protections the state's own law already requires. Twelve states publish in this release; the hub states that coverage and the remaining states follow in waves. Headline figures: lot-rent increase notice of 90 days in California, Delaware (90 to 120), Florida, New York, Oregon and Washington, 60 in Colorado, Minnesota, New Hampshire and Vermont, 30 in Connecticut and Massachusetts; statewide limits on lot-rent increases in four states — Delaware (3.5% plus half of a 24-month CPI figure, never above 6.1%, made permanent July 23, 2026), New York (3%, up to 6% on a stated justification), Oregon (6% above 30 spaces; the lesser of 10% or 7% plus CPI at 30 or fewer, since Oregon Laws 2025 ch. 387) and Washington (5%, none in the first 12 months, no sunset); just cause to end a lot tenancy in all twelve; closure notice from 6 months (California, Florida) to 24 months (Massachusetts, New York, Washington); a right of first refusal on a park sale in Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts and New York, an opportunity to negotiate in Colorado, New Hampshire, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, a closure-triggered right in Minnesota and notice only in California. Federal protections already required by state law range from 3 of 8 (Minnesota) to 8 of 8 (Washington). Every figure was read from the state's official statute site (Massachusetts includes the Attorney General's regulations, 940 CMR 10.00); Washington's RCW 59.20.300 notice-of-sale section is repealed (2025 c 205) and California's Civil Code § 798.56 was renumbered effective January 1, 2026, both reflected in the records.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/mobile-home-parks/" }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "CA" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Ten California records, each with its own citations, verification date, and current figures with the window they apply to. Los Angeles County (unincorporated areas only — Chapter 8.52; 60% of inflation with a 3% ceiling, 4% for small landlords and 5% for luxury units; 1.919% / 2.919% / 3.919% for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027; unpaid rent must exceed two months of federal Fair Market Rent before a nonpayment eviction since April 16, 2026; registration by September 30 at $90 or $30 per unit for 2026-27). Santa Ana (Chapter 8, Article XIX — the lesser of 3% or 80% of inflation, 2.42% through August 31, 2026 and 2.87% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027; eviction rules from 30 days of occupancy; three months' rent as relocation; voters approved the ordinance as Measure CC on November 5, 2024, so changes need voter approval; the codified seat split for the Rental Housing Board differs from how the city now describes the board). West Hollywood (Title 17 — 75% of May-to-May inflation with a 3% ceiling and no saving of skipped increases, 2.75% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027; the coverage line is July 1, 1979; 19 eviction grounds with relocation payments of $9,763 to $32,547 for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027; deposit interest 4.3% for 2025). Beverly Hills (two chapters — Chapter 6 units may rise by the greater of 3% or inflation, 3.6% set in June 2026; Chapter 5 units by 8% or inflation whichever is less, 3.35% posted August 12, 2026 and recalculated monthly; the Rent Stabilization Commission was repealed effective January 3, 2025; relocation $8,636.20 to $17,283.53 plus $2,000 from July 1, 2026; $74 per unit for 2026-27). Inglewood (Housing Protection Ordinance — 3% or inflation, whichever is greater, on properties of five or more units; 5% plus inflation or 10%, whichever is lower, on four or fewer; the 3.7% inflation figure published May 12, 2026 gives 3.7% and 8.7%; relocation amounts fixed in the ordinance). Pomona (Ordinance No. 4359 — a flat 5% for January 1 – December 31, 2026 with no carry-forward and no rent registry; the ordinance expires December 31, 2026 unless the City Council votes to fund it; relocation $6,164 to $15,377). Hayward (Chapter 12, Article 1 — a 5% threshold once per 12 months, above which a tenant may petition and the landlord must justify the increase; banking to a 10% total; coverage line July 1, 1979; no rent board and no annual figure; $66 or $32 per unit for 2026-27). Richmond (Measure L as amended by Measure P — the lesser of 60% of inflation or 3%, 1.5% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027 and up to 6.5% with saved-up increases; $261 or $149 per unit for 2026-27). Mountain View (Charter Article XVII — 100% of inflation with a 2% floor and 5% ceiling, 2.5% for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027; single-family homes, condominiums and duplexes are outside the whole article; $143 per unit for 2026-27). Culver City (Chapter 15.09 — inflation with a 2% floor and 5% ceiling, 3.25% for June 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 as the city moves from monthly to annual figures; renamed the Rent Stabilization Ordinance effective February 11, 2026; $177 per unit from July 1, 2026). The California hub now names eighteen local records; the metro lookup joins the new records to the Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland and San Jose metropolitan areas.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-17", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "NJ", "MA", "WA" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Eight local rent-regulation records added. Elizabeth (NJ) Chapter 5.70: 3% a year or $20, whichever is less, after Ordinance No. 6160 (adopted July 28, 2025) restored the dollar ceiling; the same ordinance moves the chapter’s expiration date to December 31, 2027; a 20% first-year turnover increase, no vacancy decontrol; annual registration by March 1 required before any increase; the published code (through Ordinance No. 6138) and the city’s January 2026 letter still show only the 3%. Paterson (NJ) Chapter 381: fixed 5%, 3.5% for tenants 65 or older or Social Security-disabled, 2.5% for those tenants with monthly income of $1,000 or less and household income of $1,500 or less; buildings of two or more units (three or more if owner-occupied); base date December 23, 1999; tax surcharge repealed June 18, 1985; decontrol only for rehabilitated abandoned-list property, once per three years. Bayonne (NJ) Chapter 16 (rewritten July 19, 2023): covers only tenancies continuous since June 30, 2011 in buildings of five or more units; consumer price index increase capped at 5.5%, approved by the Rent Control Office; permanent decontrol on vacancy; a January 17, 2024 clause extended the chapter through December 31, 2024 and no later extension appears in the code (through December 17, 2025) while the city administers the chapter in 2026. East Orange (NJ) Chapter 218: 4% per 12 months for a sitting tenant, 2% for qualified senior tenants and (Ordinance No. 9 of 2025) disabled tenants, turnover limited to the lesser of 5% or the consumer price index change; buildings of three or fewer units exempt; rent roll due September 1 ($100 per building for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027) as a precondition to any increase; decontrol only by application and inspection with a 10-year bar (fees re-priced by Ordinance No. 18 of 2026). Atlantic City (NJ) Chapter 41: annual increase equal to the housing-component consumer price index change for the 12 months before the lease ends, no percentage ceiling, index issued quarterly by the Office of Landlord-Tenant Affairs and not published online; full vacancy decontrol with a harassment clawback; buildings of three or more units built after June 25, 1987 exempt. Passaic (NJ) Chapter 231 (renamed Rent Stabilization January 7, 2025): 3% a year effective September 22, 2025 (Ordinance No. 2494-25; the cap was 8% in January and 6% in February 2025), plus an itemized floor-area share of municipal property tax increases; the limit stays with the unit on vacancy; tenancies in place since December 9, 1999 or earlier remain under the older consumer price index or $25-a-month limit; the 3% section runs six years. Boston (MA): verified absence — Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 40P bars local rent control; the March 8, 2023 home rule petition (H.3744) was sent to study September 9, 2024; the statewide ballot question was struck by the Supreme Judicial Court on June 23, 2026 (Cella v. Attorney General, SJC-13893); the condominium-conversion protections in Code § 10-2, with a 10%-or-CPI limit during notice periods, run to December 31, 2026. Seattle (WA): verified absence — RCW 35.21.830 bars local rent control; the statewide cap (RCW 59.18.700) is 9.683% for January 1 – December 31, 2026 and 10% for January 1 – December 31, 2027; the city’s 180-day increase notice, economic-displacement relocation assistance, just-cause eviction chapter 22.205, deposit and late-fee caps, and rental registration are recorded. New Jersey hub coverage note now names ten records; metros.json joins the new records to the New York, Boston, and Seattle metropolitan areas.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-16", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "CA", "CT", "MD", "ME", "MN", "NJ", "NY" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Local rent-regulation records: the status paragraph opener changed from \"Active.\" to \"In force today.\" (and its Sacramento, ETPA, and New York City variants) so the section headed \"What is in force\" answers in plain words. No figure, date, citation, or claim changes.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/localities.json" }, { "date": "2026-08-16", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "CA", "IL", "MN" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Seven local rent-regulation records added. San Jose Apartment Rent Ordinance: fixed 5% cap once per 12 months, buildings of three or more units first occupied on or before September 7, 1979; Tenant Protection Ordinance eviction grounds reach every building of three or more units regardless of age. Sacramento Tenant Protection Program: 8.6% for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 (5% plus California CPI, 10% maximum), multi-unit buildings with a certificate of occupancy on or before February 1, 1995, seven just-cause grounds after 12 months, chapter extended to December 31, 2029. Berkeley Rent Stabilization and Eviction for Just Cause Ordinance: 1.0% Annual General Adjustment for January 1 – December 31, 2026 (65% of Bay Area CPI, 0% floor, 5% ceiling since Measure BB), fully covered / partially covered / exempt tiers, owner move-in relocation $19,413 plus $6,471 effective January 1, 2026. Santa Monica Charter Article XVIII: 2.6% capped at $70 a month for September 1, 2026 – August 31, 2027 (75% of CPI, 3% ceiling), buildings constructed after April 10, 1979 outside the Charter, relocation schedule effective July 1, 2026. Pasadena Measure H: 2.25% for October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026 and 2.5% for October 1, 2026 – September 30, 2027 (75% of CPI, rounded to the quarter percent, no banking), security-deposit interest 0.12% for calendar 2026; the Court of Appeal decision striking the large-increase relocation and nonpayment warning-notice provisions is final (review denied April 1, 2026). Chicago: verified absence — Rent Control Preemption Act, 50 ILCS 825, bars any local rent control; the RLTO regulates deposits, notice, and late fees, not rent. Minneapolis: verified absence — Charter § 4.1(g) authorization approved November 2, 2021 (53.21%), no ordinance enacted; June 28, 2023 introduction failed 4–6. New metros.json export maps the 50 largest metropolitan areas to each state’s verified posture and any local record inside the metro. California hub coverage note now names eight records.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-16", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "GA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "A pending-legislation row flags Georgia SB 406 (Ga. L. 2026, p. 988, § 8): effective January 1, 2027, new O.C.G.A. 44-7-50(e) allows a court, on motion and after a hearing, to make dispossessory-proceeding records unavailable to the public where the tenant prevailed, the judgment has been paid in full with interest and costs, or seven years have passed since a dismissal or a paid judgment; the landlord may still pursue amounts owed in a separate action or through collections. Current answers are unchanged until that date.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/georgia/" }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "CA", "CT" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Four local rent-regulation records added. Los Angeles Rent Stabilization Ordinance: 3% allowable increase for July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027 under the formula effective February 2, 2026 (90% of local inflation, 1% floor, 4% ceiling; utility surcharge eliminated), covering buildings first occupied on or before October 1, 1978. San Francisco Rent Ordinance: 1.6% for March 1, 2026 – February 28, 2027 (60% of CPI, 7% maximum), buildings first occupied on or before June 13, 1979, seventeen-ground just-cause coverage reaching nearly all rentals. Oakland Rent Adjustment Program: 2.3% for August 1, 2026 – July 31, 2027 (60% of CPI, 3% maximum), pre-1983 buildings, above-CPI increases void without prior city approval. Stamford, CT fair rent commission (since 1990) recorded under the state framework. California and New Jersey hub pages now state that locality coverage is selective — the largest regimes, not every municipality with an ordinance.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "CT", "MD", "ME", "MN", "NJ", "NY", "RI" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "First local rent-regulation records published: 15 verified records covering city and county regimes (Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, Fort Lee, New York City, Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Takoma Park, Portland ME, South Portland, St. Paul), two state frameworks (Connecticut's municipal fair rent commissions; New York's ETPA opt-in stabilization, 40 participating municipalities), and two verified absences (Providence and New Shoreham, RI). Each record carries the regime's cap formula, coverage and exemptions, vacancy and registration rules, statute citations, its own verification date, and current published figures stated with their windows — including New York City's 0% stabilized-rent freeze for leases commencing October 1, 2026 through September 30, 2027. New export: /data/localities.json with its own published record structure.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-13", "type": "correction", "states": [ "CT" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Connecticut's local-rent-regulation posture and the fair-rent-commission references on the eviction page previously gave the 25,000-population threshold for the municipal fair rent commission mandate. November Special Session Public Act 25-1, Section 35, effective January 1, 2026, cut the threshold to 15,000, allowed the mandate to be satisfied by a joint or regional commission, and gave newly covered municipalities until January 1, 2028 to comply. The operative text appears in the 2026 Supplement to the General Statutes; the base revision still prints the prior text, and the record's citations now point to the supplement.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/connecticut/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "ALL" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Every state record now carries a preemption posture for local rent regulation: preempted, not preempted, or no express statute, with a qualifier where the posture is conditioned — Texas's disaster-emergency pathway, Minnesota's voter-approval exception, the legislative-approval exceptions in Indiana, Mississippi, and Utah, the statewide caps that pair with the posture in Washington, Oregon, and California, and Hawaii's savings clause. Each posture carries pinpoint statute citations, a plain-language summary, and its own verification date. 31 states bar local rent regulation by statute, 9 do not, and 10 have no express statute. State hub pages, the rent-increase pages, and the rent-increase tool now state the posture in the record's own words.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "correction", "states": [ "LA" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Louisiana is no longer described as preempting local rent control. No Louisiana statute expressly addresses local rent regulation: R.S. 9:3258 reserves alteration of a lessor's leasing rights to state law, but it never mentions rent or local governments and has not been tested against an actual ordinance. The record now says so plainly — no city or parish regulates rents — instead of presenting an untested inference as a preemption.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/louisiana/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "correction", "states": [ "TX" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Texas's local-rent-control answer now states the actual mechanism instead of a flat yes. Local Government Code § 214.902 contains no prohibition: it authorizes city rent control only during a declared housing emergency caused by a disaster, only with the governor's approval of the ordinance, and only for as long as the disaster declaration lasts — a pathway no Texas city has ever used. The practical effect, that no local rent control exists in Texas, is unchanged.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/texas/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "PA", "VT", "HI" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Hawaii's local-rent-control answers are restated on the three-way preemption scale. Pennsylvania and Vermont have no statute expressly addressing local rent control — previously shown as a bare 'not preempted' — and Hawaii is recorded as not preempted, with the caveat that the only statute on point merely preserves emergency ordinances and no Hawaii county regulates rents today.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/pennsylvania/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "AR" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "The effective date of Arkansas's Act 459 of 2025 — which extended the rent-control preemption in §§ 14-16-601 and 14-54-1409 to rental application fees and rental deposits — is now stated precisely: August 5, 2025, the effective date of non-emergency acts of the 2025 regular session. The record previously said 'early August 2025.'", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/arkansas/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "MA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process", "late_fees", "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Massachusetts' standing federal-shutdown eviction moratorium is now recorded. G.L. c. 239, § 17 (St. 2025, c. 73, § 54) switches on during a federal shutdown: no nonpayment termination or notice to quit against a documented impacted federal worker, a certification requirement on every summary process complaint, no default judgment, tolled deadlines, a 30-day continuance right, a late-fee bar with a credit-reporting bar (§ 17(e)), and landlord access to last month's rent held under c. 186, § 15B (§ 17(g)). Since July 1, 2026 a partial shutdown also triggers the section (St. 2026, c. 137, § 84). The section is not yet in the online General Laws, so the session laws are cited. The eviction page's discretionary-stay wording also now tracks the statute's current 'person with a disability' terminology (St. 2026, c. 102).", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/massachusetts/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "VA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Four Virginia chapters effective July 1, 2026 are now described: the Eviction Diversion Program's rewritten eligibility rules, with program information attached to every unlawful-detainer summons and referral no longer requiring a tenant request (§ 55.1-1262, cc. 230/818); removal of the pay-into-court precondition on the habitability defense, with the surrender-order option struck and an express power to order repairs added (§ 55.1-1241, cc. 959/1041); the bar on bifurcating the initial hearing when the tenant contests the rent and damages claimed (§ 8.01-128, c. 432); and the court-approved legal-resource insert on the summons (§ 8.01-126(C)(2), c. 635). A pending-legislation row now flags the retaliation-defense chapter effective January 1, 2027 (c. 1111). Two sentences that still described the 2027 payment-plan duty as current law were corrected.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/virginia/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "IL" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Illinois' eviction page now records 735 ILCS 5/9-102(e) (P.A. 104-0029, in force since January 1, 2026): nothing in the eviction article may be construed to prohibit law enforcement from enforcing criminal trespass (720 ILCS 5/21-3) or removing persons or property from premises where that offense is being committed. The self-help discussion now distinguishes the landlord's eviction-action-only route from this police-authority carve-out.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/illinois/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "WA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Two in-force requirements of RCW 59.12.040 are now described: every chapter 59.12 termination notice must specify the date by which the recipient must vacate or comply (added by 2025 c 44, kept verbatim by 2026 c 144), and the mail component of substitute or posted service must be posted from within Washington state — a requirement that survived the 2026 return to regular first-class mail.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/washington/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "NY" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "late_fees" ], "summary": "Two 2025 New York chapters are now encoded. Chapter 436 rewrote GOL 7-107, extending the one-month deposit cap, the 14-day itemized return with forfeiture, inspection rights, the landlord's burden of proof, and the anti-waiver rule to rent-stabilized and ETPA units — prospectively, for leases and renewals entered into on or after November 15, 2025, with successor liability now keyed to a purchaser's actual knowledge. Chapter 431 added RPL 238-a(2-a), effective October 16, 2025: no bounced-rent-check fee unless the lease provides for one, capped at the greater of the landlord's actual returned-check cost or $20, with substantiation owed on request above $20.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/new-york/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "correction", "states": [ "CT" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Connecticut's deposit page said no statute authorizes or bans nonrefundable move-in fees. In fact § 47a-4d(b) (P.A. 23-207, § 6) has banned move-in and move-out fees outright since October 1, 2023, and limits up-front charges to the security deposit, first month's rent, a key or special-equipment deposit, and a capped tenant-screening fee. The page now records the ban with its 2023 provenance, plus the May 26, 2026 extension of the application-fee and screening-fee rules to third parties acting for a landlord or the state and the screening fee's new annual inflation adjustment (P.A. 26-68, § 59).", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/connecticut/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "SC" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "South Carolina's eviction page now records Act No. 233 of 2026 (in force May 19, 2026): housing authorities join the entities that may designate an employee or principal to represent them in magistrates court without engaging in the unauthorized practice of law (§ 33-1-103), and a new § 31-3-70 confirms a housing authority may designate an employee or a manager to do so.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/south-carolina/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "TN" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Tennessee's eviction page now records Public Chapter No. 657 (2026), which adds a section to T.C.A. tit. 29, ch. 18: a private participant in an eviction process may not publish or broadcast video of the service or execution of eviction process in real time or near real time without the individual's express written permission, subject to legal-documentation and court-order exceptions, with statutory damages of at least $25,000 per intentional violation. Law enforcement officers acting in official duties are excluded, and no notice, hearing, writ, or appeal period changes.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/tennessee/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "MN" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Minnesota's deposit page now notes the 2026 move-out utility-billing rule (Laws 2026, ch. 81, secs. 1 and 4): a landlord who has not received the actual utility bill by the date the tenant vacates may issue an estimated final bill, prorated from the preceding billing period, with no added fees beyond the existing administrative billing charge and a one-period-capped late charge. The sections state no effective date of their own, so the statutory default for 2026 regular-session laws places them in force from August 1, 2026.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/minnesota/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "GA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Georgia's eviction page now reflects the Eviction Service Act (Ga. L. 2025, Act 255, effective July 1, 2025): approved process servers may serve the dispossessory summons under O.C.G.A. 44-7-51(a), alongside the sheriff, deputies, and lawful constables, with the personal-service-first fallback ladder unchanged. Notes also record two dead bills readers ask about: the repeal attempts on the § 44-7-19 local rent-regulation preemption (HB 299, SB 106) and the seven-day notice bill (HB 1389) all died before the biennium's April 2, 2026 adjournment.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/georgia/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "RI" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Rhode Island's eviction page now carries the court-fee schedule an eviction case encounters, updated by P.L. 2026, ch. 70/71 (effective June 11, 2026): the District Court entry fee for a civil action rose from $80 to $100 and the writ-of-execution fee from $20 to $40, with the Superior Court appeal-side fees rising in the same acts. The page previously carried no fee figures.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/rhode-island/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "NY" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "New York's eviction page now notes RPAPL 749-a: in New York City the marshal must post the notice of eviction and file it electronically with the court, a duty kept in force through June 30, 2028 by Chapter 137 of the Laws of 2026 (it would otherwise have lapsed June 30, 2026). No timing figure changes.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/new-york/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "LA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Louisiana's eviction page notes Acts 2026, No. 950: East Baton Rouge Parish justices of the peace gain concurrent jurisdiction with the East Baton Rouge city court over evictions where the monthly rental is $5,000 or less — a single-parish venue rule; no statewide figure or appeal window changes.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/louisiana/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "correction", "states": [ "CO" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits" ], "summary": "The seller-rent-back exception to the two-month security-deposit cap (SB26-054) operates on and after January 1, 2027; the act itself took effect August 12, 2026. The record previously reported the exception as effective November 1, 2026. Corrected against the chaptered session law and the official bill page.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/colorado/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "SC" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Act No. 184 of 2026 (H. 3569), in force since May 18, 2026, added Code section 27-40-350: on a protected tenant's early lease termination after a qualifying domestic-violence incident, security deposits are not required to be returned until the end of the lease term, and a landlord may terminate a remaining perpetrator-sole-tenant's tenancy on five days' written notice. The record previously reported the bill as having died at adjournment; both pages now carry the new law.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/south-carolina/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "correction", "states": [ "VA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process", "late_fees" ], "summary": "The HB 95 (2026 c. 1105) payment-plan overlay takes effect July 1, 2027, not January 1, 2027, and is not currently in force; the eviction page previously described it as in force. The same page's version note now records that 2026 c. 635's authorization for a legal-resource insert on the unlawful-detainer summons has been in force since July 1, 2026.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/virginia/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "AZ" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Two 2026 chapters effective September 12, 2026 are now flagged as pending legislation: Ch. 194 (HB 2244), a post-judgment tenant remedy to compel satisfaction of a paid eviction judgment, and Ch. 69 (SB 1426), a separate forcible-detainer track for unauthorized occupants that expressly leaves landlord-tenant rights unchanged. The page's currency note now names both.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/arizona/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "NE" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "A note now records that Laws 2026, LB834 (effective July 18, 2026) expanded the Disposition of Personal Property Landlord and Tenant Act to cover mobile homes, amending sections the eviction page mentions for post-eviction disposition of belongings; the notice-and-sale mechanics described are unchanged.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/nebraska/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "LA" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits" ], "summary": "The codified text of R.S. 9:3251 on the legislature's site now carries the 2026 Act 63 amendment (itemized-statement window), which this dataset incorporated from the enrolled act on August 2. Every encoded figure was re-confirmed against the codified text, and the note reporting that the official page lagged the amendment has been retired. Verified August 12, 2026.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/louisiana/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "DE" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Delaware's 2026 key-surrender law (85 Del. Laws c. 295) is now codified at 25 Del. C. § 5125 — the Code Revisors resolved the section-numbering collision with the existing § 5123 that this record had flagged. A citation to the codified section was added and the collision note updated; the codified text matches the rules already described. No figure changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/delaware/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "NC" ], "topics": [ "late_fees" ], "summary": "The citation to G.S. 42-46 now points to the statute page on ncleg.gov, the legislature's current host; the previously cited host no longer resolves. Same section, same pinpoints, no change to any figure or claim.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/late-fees/north-carolina/" }, { "date": "2026-08-12", "type": "verification", "states": [ "ID" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "late_fees", "entry_notice" ], "summary": "The three citations to the Idaho Attorney General's Landlord and Tenant Manual now point to the July 2026 edition, which replaced the July 2025 edition at a new URL. The cited guidance — the rent/deposit refundability framing, the tenant-privacy entry guidance, and the late-fee coverage — was confirmed unchanged in the new edition before the citations were updated. No legal figure, claim, or verification date changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/idaho/" }, { "date": "2026-08-11", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "MT", "NC", "ND", "NE", "NH", "NJ", "NM", "NV", "NY", "OH", "OK", "OR", "PA", "RI", "SC", "SD", "TN", "TX", "UT", "VT", "WA", "WI", "WV", "WY", "MS" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Restructured 659 strings across the remaining 24 state records: fields feeding common-question answers now open with a self-contained 1-2 sentence answer separated from the full rules by a paragraph break (292 fields carry the new lead/detail structure), verification-workflow narration in reader-facing text was restated as plain statements of law, and arrow-chain timeline notations were rewritten as prose. One Mississippi note was aligned to the same standard. All 50 states now carry the reader-answer structure. Presentation only: no source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-11", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "AK", "AL", "AR", "AZ", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DE", "FL", "GA", "HI", "IA", "ID", "IL", "IN", "KS", "KY", "LA", "MA", "MD", "ME", "MI", "MN", "MO", "MS", "VA" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Restructured 621 strings across 26 state records: fields feeding common-question answers now open with a self-contained 1-2 sentence answer separated from the full rules by a paragraph break (310 fields carry the new lead/detail structure), verification-workflow narration in reader-facing text was restated as plain statements of law, and arrow-chain timeline notations were rewritten as prose. Exported strings now contain blank-line paragraph breaks. Presentation only: no source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-11", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "AK", "AL", "AR", "AZ", "CA", "CO", "CT", "DE", "FL", "GA", "HI", "IA", "ID", "IL", "IN", "KS", "KY", "LA", "MA", "MD", "ME", "MI", "MN", "MO", "MS", "MT", "NC", "ND", "NE", "NH", "NJ", "NM", "NV", "NY", "OH", "OK", "OR", "PA", "RI", "SC", "SD", "TN", "TX", "UT", "VA", "VT", "WA", "WI", "WV", "WY" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Restructured 426 reader-facing strings across all 50 state records so every common-question answer opens with a direct plain-language response — eviction timeline answers now lead with the day count instead of the procedure chain — and rewrote remaining data-entry vocabulary in notes, rules text, and verification-method descriptions in reader terms. Presentation only: no source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-10", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "AK", "AL", "AR", "AZ", "CO", "CT", "FL", "HI", "IN", "KS", "KY", "LA", "MA", "MD", "ME", "MN", "MO", "MS", "MT", "NC", "ND", "NE", "NH", "NM", "NV", "NY", "OH", "OK", "OR", "RI", "SC", "SD", "TN", "VA", "VT", "WA", "WI", "WV", "WY" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Rewrote 112 retrieval-mechanics phrases across 39 state records' verification-method descriptions, notes, and citation labels in plain, source-focused language. Presentation only: no source, section number, legal figure, claim, negative finding, or verification date changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-09", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "AR", "GA", "ID", "KS", "KY", "MI", "NC" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Rewrote 26 notes entries across seven state records to remove internal data-field terminology from reader-facing text. Presentation only: no legal figure, claim, citation, or verification date changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/data/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "WV" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Corrected the West Virginia record's verification history, which mislabeled 2025's HB 3272 as off-topic: the act amended and reenacted W. Va. Code 55-3A-1, the core eviction-petition statute, exactly as the eviction section describes. All HB 3272 claims re-verified against the enrolled act and codified section; passage (April 12, 2025) and gubernatorial approval (April 28, 2025) confirmed as distinct, correctly stated dates.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/west-virginia/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "SD" ], "topics": [ "late_fees" ], "summary": "South Dakota's late-fee page no longer describes a '3-day notice to quit' as current law — that notice statute (SDCL 21-16-2) was repealed effective July 1, 2024. The surviving three days (SDCL 21-16-1(4)) are a waiting period before a nonpayment eviction can be filed, not a rent grace period and not a notice the tenant receives.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/late-fees/south-dakota/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "NV" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process", "late_fees" ], "summary": "Corrected Nevada's description of the 2025 legislative session: AB 121 amended only NRS 118A.200 and added the new payment-method (NRS 118A.303) and application-fee (NRS 118A.306) sections, while SB 114 added the new key-control section NRS 118A.332 rather than amending NRS 118A.335. Confirmed no 2025 enactment touches any Nevada eviction statute.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/nevada/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "MT", "VA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Montana's comparison of its one-number lease-violation notice to other states misstated Virginia's rule: Virginia gives tenants 21 days to fix a lease violation (termination 30 days after notice), while the 14-day cure figure belongs to Oregon. The Montana page now attributes each state's numbers correctly; Virginia's own record was already right and its encoded figures are unchanged.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/montana/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "MS" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Mississippi's eviction record no longer contradicts its rent-increase record on rent-control preemption: the local-overlays note now points to the express preemption in the home-rule statutes (21-17-5(2)(h) and 19-3-40(3)(g)). The chapter section count was corrected from 22 to 23 (89-8-1 through 89-8-45, none repealed), and the 2026 fraudulent-utility-conversion act's missing session-law chapter number was filled in as Laws 2026, ch. 416.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/mississippi/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "MO" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Aligned Missouri's treatment of the mobile-home-lot rule: the sixty-day landlord termination notice of RSMo 441.060.4(2) is now clearly labeled under rent increase — with the statutory clock running from the next rent due date and its override of contrary lease clauses — while the eviction topic's scope note no longer denies the figure and instead points to where it lives.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/missouri/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "NE" ], "topics": [ "late_fees", "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Corrected the description of the statutory range checked for Nebraska's late-fee and deposit-interest findings: the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act runs 76-1401 through 76-1449, and sections 76-1450 through 76-14,111 are the separate Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Act. The findings themselves are unchanged — no late-fee cap, no grace period, and no deposit-interest requirement in the act.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/late-fees/nebraska/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "ND" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "North Dakota's uncontested-eviction timeline now correctly anchors the court-appearance window to issuance of the summons, as the statute and a 2025 North Dakota Supreme Court decision require, rather than to the filing date; in practice the two dates usually coincide, and no day counts changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/north-dakota/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "correction", "states": [ "WA" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice", "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Washington's rent-stabilization sunset is now pinned from the statute text: RCW 59.18.700, .710, and .720 each expire July 1, 2040 by their own terms (2025 c 209), replacing a hedged 'reported 2040.' The three security-deposit prerequisite statutes (RCW 59.18.260, .270, .285) were read directly and added to the citations, with one refinement: trust-account interest belongs to the landlord unless the parties agree otherwise in writing.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/washington/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "verification", "states": [ "UT" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process", "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Re-read Utah's nuisance eviction ground (78B-6-802(1)(f)) as amended by 2026 H.B. 591 and confirmed the record verbatim, adding a note that the subsection cites a section the same act repealed — 'private nuisance' is now defined at 78B-6a-101(10). Also confirmed the 2023 rewrite of the deposit-penalty statute (57-17-5) as H.B. 251, Chapter 401 of the 2023 session, effective 7/1/2024.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/utah/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "verification", "states": [ "WI" ], "topics": [ "rent_increase_notice", "entry_notice" ], "summary": "Verified that the preemption-wave citation to Wis. Stat. 66.1010 (local eviction-moratorium ban, 2011 Act 143) is correct and distinct from the 66.1015 rent-control preemption, and clarified the bullet to name each section's role. Also confirmed the absent-tenant entry exception genuinely exists in both Wis. Stat. 704.05(2) and ATCP 134.09(2)(b)3., and made that two-layer relationship explicit.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/rent-increase-notice/wisconsin/" }, { "date": "2026-08-05", "type": "verification", "states": [ "TN" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Confirmed from the enrolled act that 2014 Public Chapter 593 (SB 1787) is the law that cut Tennessee's URLTA eviction-notice periods to 14 days, and added the official act citation to the record. The 14-day figures themselves are unchanged.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/tennessee/" }, { "date": "2026-08-04", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "WA", "WV" ], "topics": [ "late_fees", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Two internal-register tokens replaced with reader-facing wording (WA late-fee scope note; WV court description). No legal figure or claim changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/late-fees/washington/" }, { "date": "2026-08-04", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "ALL" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice", "eviction_process" ], "summary": "All 246 notes fields across 50 states converted from legacy prose strings to labeled, reader-facing bullet arrays (register-only conversion, 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-04). No figures, citations, or legal claims changed; verification dates unmoved.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/" }, { "date": "2026-08-02", "type": "verification", "states": [ "MN" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Minnesota eviction record re-verified against 2026 session laws: chapter 81 section 5 (expedited-ground and penalty changes) and chapter 88 items folded in; topic_verified moved to 2026-08-02.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/minnesota/" }, { "date": "2026-08-02", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "ME" ], "topics": [ "entry_notice" ], "summary": "Maine 2026 chapter 767 encoded: $250 tenant remedy and 14-M.R.S. section 6025-B, effective 2026-07-29 (effective date verified against the Legislature's published statement).", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/entry-notice/maine/" }, { "date": "2026-08-02", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "LA" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits" ], "summary": "Louisiana Act 63 of 2026 encoded from the enrolled act: itemization deadline is now one month plus 15 days where the tenant timely requests itemization.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/security-deposits/louisiana/" }, { "date": "2026-08-02", "type": "law_change", "states": [ "MN" ], "topics": [ "late_fees" ], "summary": "Minnesota 2026 chapter 81 late-fee provision encoded: late fees barred where rent is late due to a qualifying utility outage (session law cited).", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/late-fees/minnesota/" }, { "date": "2026-07-26", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "ALL" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Fifth topic published: statute-cited eviction process records for all 50 states (notice periods, court and action, filing-to-hearing, writ and lockout, appeal windows, self-help rules), verified 2026-07-21 through 2026-07-25.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/" }, { "date": "2026-07-26", "type": "presentation", "states": [ "SD" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice" ], "summary": "South Dakota citation URLs re-pointed to fetchable official endpoints. URLs only; no substantive change.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/south-dakota/" }, { "date": "2026-07-24", "type": "correction", "states": [ "OK" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process" ], "summary": "Oklahoma notice_lease_violation_days corrected 10 to 15: the field encodes the termination date (the day the landlord may first file), and 41 O.S. section 132(B) sets termination at not less than 15 days after receipt with cure in 10. Both figures shown on the page.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/eviction-process/oklahoma/" }, { "date": "2026-07-16", "type": "verification", "states": [ "MO", "WA" ], "topics": [ "eviction_process", "rent_increase_notice" ], "summary": "Maintenance pass: Missouri TAFP bill-status gate checked; Washington 2027 rent-cap figure watch confirmed current. No values changed.", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/" }, { "date": "2026-07-12", "type": "coverage", "states": [ "ALL" ], "topics": [ "security_deposits", "rent_increase_notice", "late_fees", "entry_notice" ], "summary": "Initial 50-state verification complete for the four founding topics: every record built from direct reads of official statute text, with per-claim citations and last-verified dates (verification passes 2026-07-07 through 2026-07-12).", "url": "https://landlordatlas.com/laws/" } ] }