PR 26-0015 Legislature · 26th Council Period (2025-2026)

Rent Stabilized Housing Inflation Protection Continuation Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2025

This resolution (PR 26-0015) extends existing rent stabilization protections for District of Columbia tenants in rent-stabilized housing. It maintains the current annual rent caps - 4% for elderly/disabled tenants or certain co-leased units, and 6% for all other rent-stabilized units - along with cumulative caps (8% and 12% over two years) that prevent excessive rent hikes. The resolution ensures these protections remain in place through April 2025, protecting over 70,000 tenants from displacement due to rapid rent increases. It is a procedural continuation of prior legislation (2023 and 2024 acts) rather than a new policy change.

Issues: ✓ Housing

Sub-Topics: Tenant Rights Renters

Bill status signed all 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Council Passage

Jan 2025

Signed into Law

Jan 2025

Introduced Jan 6, 2025 Signed Jan 7, 2025

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Introduction → Enrollment · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill transitioned from a proposed resolution to an enrolled original version, indicating it has been formally approved and finalized. The substantive policy content remains largely unchanged, with only minor formatting adjustments and some text refinements. The bill continues to address rent stabilization protections for tenants in the District of Columbia.

TECHNICAL

The document format changed from a 'PROPOSED RESOLUTION' to an 'ENROLLED ORIGINAL' version, indicating the bill has been formally approved and is now in its final legislative form.

Minor text refinements were made throughout, such as changing 'Council voted' to 'Council voted' in section 2(c), and adjusting punctuation and capitalization for consistency.

The enrolled version includes additional metadata such as bill number '26-11' and date 'January 7, 2025' that were not present in the proposed version.

Floor votes · Council Jan 7, 2025

How they voted

13–0

Passed

Total votes 13

Jan 7, 2025

D Democratic11

11 Yea

100% Yea

I Independent2

2 Yea

100% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Jan 7, 2025

Council · Passed

Council Vote: pass (13-0)

council

Jan 6, 2025

Introduced

PR26-0015 Introduced by Councilmember R. White at Office of the Secretary

legislature

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors