The San Francisco Rent Board just announced the annual allowable rent increase for increases that go into effect between March 1, 2017 and February 28, 2018. The annual allowable rent increase will be 2.2%. You have to go back fifteen years to find a higher annual allowable rent increase.
This amount is calculated as 60% of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for All Urban Consumers in the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose region, which was 3.6%.
Note that the annual rent increase applies to base rent only. If part of your monthly payment is attributable to a passthrough or other payment aside from base rent, that amount should not be affected by the 2.2% increase.
As always, your landlord can impose “banked” rent increases that have not previously been imposed. The complete history of annual allowable rent increases can be found at the San Francisco Rent Board’s website here.