ENROLLED ORIGINAL
A RESOLUTION
25-390
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
December 19, 2023
To declare the existence of an emergency regarding the need to amend the Rental Housing Act
of 1985 to give housing providers until January 1, 2024, to comply with a legislative
change that requires a 60-day notice of a rent increase to tenants.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution
may be cited as the “Fairness in Renting Notice Clarification Emergency Declaration
Resolution of 2023”.
Sec. 2. (a) On September 19, 2023, the Council passed the Fairness in Renting
Clarification Amendment Act of 2023, effective November 28, 2023 (D.C. Law 25-65; 70
DCR 13822), which took effect on November 28, 2023.
(b) Among other reforms, the legislation increased the notice period that housing
providers must provide to tenants of a prospective rent increase from 30 days to 60 days.
(c) Because of the increased notice requirement, housing providers who planned to
initiate rent increases between December 28, 2023, and January 27, 2024, including on January
1, cannot comply with the 60-day notice requirement.
(d) Similarly, housing providers who planned to initiate rent increases beginning
February 1, 2024, would have had to provide notice to tenants by December 1, 2023, just 3
calendar days after the law took effect.
(e) Emergency legislation is necessary to give housing providers sufficient time to
comply with the new 60-day notice requirement.
Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances
enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the
Fairness in Renting Notice Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2023 be adopted after
a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.