Metro file
No statewide apartment cap. Courts strike 'unconscionable' increases, and about 100 municipalities — Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, Elizabeth, Paterson, Trenton, New Brunswick, Montclair, East Orange, Plainfield, Camden among them — run their own ordinances with their own boards. Phase: we route to your town's board and published allowance rather than compute a number we have not read in your town's text.
New Jersey has no statewide apartment cap. What it has instead is older and stranger: a common-law doctrine under which courts strike increases that are unconscionable — judged against the landlord’s costs, returns, and the size of the jump — and roughly a hundred municipal ordinances, each with its own board, formula, and published allowance. Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, Elizabeth, Paterson, Trenton, New Brunswick, Montclair, East Orange, Plainfield and Camden are among the regulated towns.
Because a town’s allowance lives in its own ordinance text, we route New Jersey cases: the checker audits your notice, frequency and timing statewide, and your town board is the address for the percentage itself. Manufactured-home residents are the exception — you hold a true statewide number: the 3.5% lot-rent cap.
Rules checked October 2026