Does Oregon have rent control?

Yes — Oregon has statewide rent control or stabilization. Oregon caps most rent increases statewide at 9.5% for calendar year 2026 and at 10% for calendar year 2027. The state recalculates the maximum for the following year and publishes it by every September 30, and it applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week.

Does Oregon preempt local rent control ordinances?

Oregon law bars cities and counties from enacting local rent control, with narrow exceptions for subsidized housing, condominium conversions, and disasters, while a separate statewide law caps most annual rent increases.

Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Oregon?

Fixed-term tenancies sit under the same statewide limits as any other, so rent is locked for the first year, capped, and raisable only once a year on 90 days' notice.

How often can a landlord raise the rent in Oregon?

Rent cannot be raised at all during the first year after the tenancy begins, and no more than once in any 12-month period after that (ORS 90.323(2)(a), (c)).

How much notice is required to raise the rent in Oregon?

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Oregon caps most residential rent increases at 9.5% for calendar year 2026 and 10% for calendar year 2027, and requires at least 90 days' written notice before any increase takes effect.

Cited to ORS 90.323 (2)-(6) and 6 more cited sources · Verified October 1, 2026

The cap — the lesser of 10% or 7% plus West Region inflation, recalculated and published by the state by each September 30 — has applied statewide since 2019, making Oregon the nation's first rent-stabilization state. Rent can never be raised during the first year of a tenancy and no more than once in any 12-month period afterward, and the notice must state the increase amount, the new rent, and the effective date. New buildings are exempt for 15 years from their first certificate of occupancy, as are units regulated or certified as affordable housing by a government when the change does not raise the tenant's share of the rent or is required by program rules or a change in the tenant's income, but even exempt landlords owe the 90-day notice with the facts supporting the exemption. Charging above the cap costs the landlord three months' rent plus the tenant's actual damages. Week-to-week tenancies need only 7 days' notice and are not capped, manufactured-home parks with more than 30 spaces have a stricter 6% limit, and cities and counties remain barred from enacting their own rent control by ORS 91.225.

Oregon rent increase notice at a glance

Notice — month-to-month	90 days
Varies by increase size	Not addressed by statute
Fixed-term leases	Fixed-term tenancies sit under the same statewide limits as any other, so rent is locked for the first year, capped, and raisable only once a year on 90 days' notice. Those limits are: no rent increase during the first year after the tenancy begins, at least 90 days' written notice before any increase takes effect, no more than one increase in any 12-month period, and no increase above the ORS 90.324(1) cap unless the unit is exempt. ORS 90.323 applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week, fixed-term included. Week-to-week tenancies instead require 7 days' written notice and are not subject to the cap.
Statewide rent control / stabilization	Yes
Rent control details	Oregon caps most rent increases statewide at 9.5% for calendar year 2026 and at 10% for calendar year 2027. The state recalculates the maximum for the following year and publishes it by every September 30, and it applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week. Oregon was the first statewide rent-stabilization state (SB 608, 2019; cap formula amended by SB 611, 2023). Under ORS 90.324(1) the Department of Administrative Services (Office of Economic Analysis) calculates the maximum annual increase for the following calendar year as the LESSER of 10 percent or 7 percent plus the September annual 12-month average change in the CPI for All Urban Consumers, West Region (All Items), and must publish it in a press release by September 30. For calendar 2027 the maximum is 10%: 7% plus the 3.1% CPI change came to 10.1%, so the 10% ceiling controls. For calendar 2026 it is 9.5% (7% + 2.5% CPI); 2025 was 10.0%. Exemptions under ORS 90.323(5) cover units whose first certificate of occupancy issued less than 15 years before the notice date, and units regulated or certified as affordable housing by a federal, state, or local government where the change in rent does not increase the tenant's portion of the rent or is required by program eligibility requirements or a change in the tenant's income. Exempt landlords must still give the 90-day notice stating the facts supporting the exemption. An anti-churn rule in 90.323(4) provides that after a first-year 30-day no-cause termination, the next tenancy's rent may not exceed what the terminated tenant could lawfully have been charged. Under 90.323(6), an increase violating the cap or the re-rental rule makes the landlord liable for three months' periodic rent plus the tenant's actual damages. Manufactured-dwelling-park and marina tenancies run a separate regime (ORS 90.600): capped at a flat 6% where the facility has more than 30 spaces (HB 3054, 2025), and at the 90.324 formula (9.5% for 2026, 10% for 2027) for 30 or fewer spaces.
Local rent regulation	Oregon law bars cities and counties from enacting local rent control, with narrow exceptions for subsidized housing, condominium conversions, and disasters, while a separate statewide law caps most annual rent increases.
Frequency limits	Rent cannot be raised at all during the first year after the tenancy begins, and no more than once in any 12-month period after that (ORS 90.323(2)(a), (c)).

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Notes and caveats

A living figure — the cap is republished every September 30 — under ORS 90.324(2) the Department of Administrative Services (Office of Economic Analysis) publishes the following calendar year's maximum increase by September 30, through a press release and its rent-stabilization page. The 2027 figure, 10%, was published on September 28, 2026; the 2028 figure is due by September 30, 2027.
The 2026 and 2027 figures are both from the state's own publications — the Office of Economic Analysis page states "For 2027, the maximum allowable rent increase percentage for tenancies subject to ORS 90.324(b) is 10%." and that the 2026 figure was 9.5%; the Department's press release of September 28, 2026 carries the same two figures, and its published calculation shows a 3.1% CPI change for 2027, which with 7% exceeds the 10% ceiling. The 2026 figure of 9.5% was published on September 30, 2025 and corrected on October 1, 2025.
Stale-source trap: the pre-2023 formula had no 10% ceiling — before SB 611 (2023) the cap was simply 7% plus CPI, which produced 14.6% in 2023. Any source still quoting that formula, or that figure, is describing superseded law.
Old cap figures still circulating — 9.9% (2022), 14.6% (2023), 10.0% (2024) and 10.0% (2025) all remain in circulation online; only the current year's published percentage governs.
The "6% cap" headlines are about parks, not apartments — the 6% figure from HB 3054 (2025) applies only to manufactured-dwelling-park and marina facilities with more than 30 spaces under ORS 90.600. It has nothing to do with ordinary apartment tenancies.
Statewide cap plus local preemption — the original combination — Oregon both caps rent statewide and bars cities and counties from setting their own controls; Washington copied the combination in 2025. The exceptions inside ORS 91.225 — subsidized-property rent limits, condominium-conversion periods and post-disaster controls — do not change that headline.
What Portland's ordinances still do — Portland's relocation-assistance and longer-notice ordinances survive preemption because they do not control the rent itself. Those local rules are not covered here.
The penalty reaches the cap, not notice defects — ORS 90.323(6) exposes a landlord to three months' rent plus actual damages for exceeding the cap and for violating the (4) re-rental rule — not for a bare defect in the notice.
Notice length does not scale with the size of the increase — 90 days applies regardless of how large the increase is. An above-cap increase by an exempt landlord simply adds the facts supporting the exemption to the same notice.
Pet rent is rent — adding or raising it is a rent increase — Rent means any payment to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement, periodic or otherwise, in exchange for the right of a tenant and any permitted pet to occupy a dwelling unit (ORS 90.100(41)(a)), and expressly excludes security deposits and fees (paragraph (b)). So monthly pet rent is rent: introducing it or raising it during a tenancy is a rent increase, barred in the first year of a tenancy other than week to week and afterwards subject to the 90 days' written notice, the once-in-12-months limit and the yearly maximum under ORS 90.323 and 90.324. The pets and assistance-animals page states the pet-charge rules in full.

Common questions: Oregon rent increase notice

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How many days' notice must a landlord give before raising rent in Oregon?: 90 days.
Does Oregon have rent control?: Yes — Oregon has statewide rent control or stabilization. Oregon caps most rent increases statewide at 9.5% for calendar year 2026 and at 10% for calendar year 2027. The state recalculates the maximum for the following year and publishes it by every September 30, and it applies to every tenancy other than week-to-week.
Does Oregon preempt local rent control ordinances?: Oregon law bars cities and counties from enacting local rent control, with narrow exceptions for subsidized housing, condominium conversions, and disasters, while a separate statewide law caps most annual rent increases.
Can a landlord raise the rent during a fixed-term lease in Oregon?: Fixed-term tenancies sit under the same statewide limits as any other, so rent is locked for the first year, capped, and raisable only once a year on 90 days' notice.
How often can a landlord raise the rent in Oregon?: Rent cannot be raised at all during the first year after the tenancy begins, and no more than once in any 12-month period after that (ORS 90.323(2)(a), (c)).

Citations

ORS 90.323 · (2)-(6) (verified 2026) Official source
ORS 90.324 · (1)-(2) (verified 2026) Official source
ORS 91.225 · (2)-(5) (verified 2026) Official source
DAS Office of Economic Analysis — Rent Stabilization (official annual cap publication) (verified 2026) Official source
DAS newsroom — 2026 Rent Stabilization Percentages (corrected 2025-10-01) (verified 2026) Official source
ORS 90.100 · (17), (41) (verified 2026) Official source
DAS newsroom — Annual Maximum Rent Increase for 2027 (September 28, 2026) (verified 2026) Official source

How this record was verified: Direct read of statute text on the official Oregon Legislature site (oregonlegislature.gov) on October 1, 2026: ORS chapters 90, 91, 105 and 19 in the 2025 Edition, which takes in the 2025 regular session. The 2026 regular session's changes were read in the session laws themselves (Oregon Laws 2026, chapters 23, 60, 61 and 108), with the Legislature's tables of sections amended for the 2025 regular session, the 2025 special session and the 2026 regular session. Key numbers read: 31-day deposit return, 2x penalty, 4th-day late-fee grace, 6%/day and 5%/5-day fee caps, 24 hours' actual notice, 90-day increase notice, first-year bar, once-per-12-months limit, 15-year exemption, 3-months-rent penalty, lesser-of-10%-or-7%+CPI formula. The annually published cap was read on the Department of Administrative Services Office of Economic Analysis rent-stabilization page, in its press releases and in its calculation workbooks: 9.5% for calendar 2026 (West Region CPI change of 2.5%) and 10% for calendar 2027 (press release of September 28, 2026).