2 rules apply — the local one first, then the county and state rules that bind alongside it.
Verified on 2026-08-17.
Edison has rent control, administered by the Fair Rental Housing Board, which can order a refund where an overcharge has occurred. The DCA records the ordinance as reaching housing with three or more units and capping an annual increase at 5%.
The DCA records housing with fewer than three units as exempt, so a two-family would be outside the ordinance and a three-family inside it — but this is the survey's reading of a clause nobody here could open, and the exemption it summarises appears to be conjunctive (units *and* commercial floor space), which would make three units necessary rather than sufficient. Ask the Board which it is before an offer turns on it.
The cap and the threshold here come from the DCA survey rather than from the ordinance: Edison's rent-control chapter could not be read in any published copy, and only the section establishing the Fair Rental Housing Board (Chapter 17 §17-4.9, the 1999 Code's §5.52.080) could be confirmed from the township's own documents. Treat the 5% as reported rather than read. One practical point that matters more than the percentage: a hardship or capital-improvement increase needs the Board to sit, and its seats have been reported vacant — confirm it has a quorum before underwriting a route that depends on it.
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Verified on 2026-08-17.
New Jersey has no statewide rent control. The Department of Community Affairs' 2026 survey of all 564 municipalities found 120 with an ordinance and 444 without, and their caps, unit thresholds, exemptions and vacancy rules differ town by town.
This municipality's ordinance has not been read into this knowledge base. Check the DCA's survey — it names every municipality and gives the unit threshold and the increase limit for each — and then read the ordinance itself or call the rent board, before assuming rents can be reset on purchase or turnover. One statewide limit does apply everywhere: N.J.S.A. 2A:42-84.5 keeps municipal rent control off housing completed after 25 June 1987 for 30 years from completion.
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