SB 52 (Pérez D) Housing rental rates and occupancy levels: algorithmic devices.

Current Text: Amended: 6/26/2025
Last Amend: 6/26/2025
Status: 7/2/2025-From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (July 1).
Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.
Location: 7/1/2025-A. P. & C.P.
Summary: The Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act prescribes statewide limits on the application of
local rent control with regard to certain properties. That act, among other things, authorizes an owner
of residential real property to establish the initial and all subsequent rental rates for a dwelling or unit
that meets specified criteria, subject to certain limitations. This bill would make it unlawful for any
person to sell, license, or otherwise provide to 2 or more persons a rental pricing algorithm, as
defined, with the intent that it be used by 2 or more persons, as specified, to set rental terms, as
defined, for residential premises. The bill would make it unlawful for any person to use a rental pricing
algorithm to recommend rental terms for residential premises if the person knew or should have
known that the rental pricing algorithm would be used to set rental terms by 2 or more landlords in the
same or related market used or if the person coerces any other person to use the rental pricing
algorithm to set rental terms for residential premises in the same market or a related market. The bill
would also make it unlawful for a person to set or adopt rental terms based on the recommendation of
a rental pricing algorithm if the person knows or should know that the rental pricing algorithm
processes nonpublic competitor data, as defined, to set rental terms and that the pricing algorithm or
the recommendation of the algorithm was used by another person to set or recommend a rental term
for residential premises in the same market or a related market.