Haddon rent control: maximum rent increase (2026)
Camden County — Chapter 189, Rent Control. Full ordinance text ↗
Maximum rent increase
up to 4% (CPI-based)
Average CPI increase for urban wage earners and clerical workers (Philadelphia/NJ), measured July of the prior year through June of the current year, not exceeding 4%.
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Summary
- Cap formula
- Average CPI increase for urban wage earners and clerical workers (Philadelphia/NJ), measured July of the prior year through June of the current year, not exceeding 4%.
- Frequency
- Not on file — check the ordinance
- Notice required
- Not on file — check the ordinance
- Who's covered
- Residential rental units, 1 or more units
- Exemptions
- federally subsidized units
- public housing
- motels, hotels, similar dwellings
- newly constructed multiunit first-time rentals
- units rented for the first time or receiving initial certificate of occupancy after rent control ordinance establishment
- units constructed in a redevelopment area
- new construction (30 yrs from certificate of occupancy, N.J.S.A. 2A:42-84.2)
- Vacancy decontrol
- Vacancy Decontrol (until re-rented).
- Status
- active
- Confidence
- medium
- Last verified
- 2026-09-23
Official summary
We haven't yet verified this cap against the ordinance text itself. The state's summary of Haddon's ordinance reads:
Average increases in CPI for urban wage earner and clerical worker Philadelphia/NJ for 12 month period beginning July of previous year and ending June of current year, not exceeding 4%.NJ Department of Community Affairs, 2026 Rent Control Survey — nj.gov
Ordinance: Chapter 189, Rent Control — https://ecode360.com/10198761
State survey entry
- Units covered
- 1+
- Exceptions
- Exception(s) - Federally subsidized units, public housing, motels, hotels, similar dwellings, newly constructed multiunit first-time rentals, units rented or offered for rent for the first time or which receive initial certificate of occupancy after establishment of the rent control ordinance, and units constructed in a redevelopment area. Vacancy Decontrol (until re-rented).
Source: NJ Department of Community Affairs, 2026 Rent Control Survey — nj.gov
Open questions
- Ordinance text not fully verified: eCode360 (https://ecode360.com/10198761) returned only section headings, not full text, and the direct PDF (Ord. No. 1296, https://www.haddontwp.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/1296-Rent-Control1.pdf) could not be parsed as text. A secondary web-search summary suggested the CPI comparison uses the lower of the NY-Newark-Jersey City or Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington regional indexes and that the base ordinance is No. 1296, adopted 2012-07-24; this detail is unverified against primary text and is not reflected in the structured fields above.
- Notice, registration, surcharge, and penalty details could not be verified and are left null.
Rent board
Rent Control Board · (856) 833-6265 ext- 6265 · https://www.haddontwp.com/government/boards-commissions/