Delaware just made its manufactured-home rent formula permanent
Delaware just made its manufactured-home rent formula permanent
2026-09-07 · Delaware · Legislation
Delaware's manufactured-home rent-increase formula was a pilot with an expiry date. It is now permanent. SB 235, signed July 23, 2026, struck the July 1, 2027 sunset from 25 Del. C. § 7052A and repealed the provisions that would have revived the old rent-justification grounds after it.
The citation is 85 Del. Laws c. 358, effective on signature. It passed the Senate 19-0 on March 25, 2026 and the House 41-0 on June 30, 2026 — the final session day.1
Exactly what changed
Three edits, all verifiable in the current code:2
§ 7052A(a)(1) previously applied to a lease “when notice of a rent increase is provided on or after July 1, 2022, until July 1, 2027.” The end date is struck. It now reads simply: “This section applies to a lease when notice of a rent increase is provided on or after July 1, 2022.”
§ 7052A(a)(2) and (a)(3) — the wind-down provisions for phased increases and for agreements continuing past July 1, 2027 — are [Repealed].
§ 7052(a)(2), which would have revived the older rent-justification grounds “when notice of a rent increase is provided on or after July 1, 2027,” is [Repealed].
The formula itself came from SB 317 of the 151st General Assembly (83 Del. Laws c. 341), enacted as a pilot. The old § 7052 grounds now apply only to increases noticed before July 1, 2022.
The correction this forces
This is the kind of change that quietly falsifies a lot of published guidance. Any source stating that Delaware's manufactured-home rent-justification calculations expire in 2027, or that the old § 7052 grounds return, is now wrong. The direction of the effective-date story here is unusual: the news is the removal of a date, not the addition of one.
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Related Delaware HOA Topics
- SB 235, 153rd General Assembly — bill record (Senate 19-0 Mar. 25, 2026; House 41-0 June 30, 2026; signed July 23, 2026; 85 Del. Laws c. 358) ↩
- 25 Del. C. ch. 70, subch. VI — Rent Increase Justification (§§ 7050–7056; § 7052(a)(2), § 7052A(a)(2)–(3) repealed by 85 Del. Laws c. 358) ↩
- Delaware Manufactured Home Relocation Authority — published 24-month CPI-U and maximum allowable rent increase ↩
- HA 4 to HB 242, 153rd General Assembly — action history (introduced and stricken in House, Aug. 12, 2025) ↩
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