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In their Rent Regulation column, Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss how recent changes to the New York City Administrative Code along with a recent decision in the Appellate Term, First ...
Failure to provide these may allow the tenant to receive a lower rent. [4] Outside of New York City, the state government determines the maximum rents and rate increases, and owners may periodically apply for increases. In New York City, rent control is based on the Maximum Base Rent system. A maximum allowable rent is established for each unit.
Recent reports estimate that there are over 1 million rent-stabilized apartments in New York City. That means that almost half of the city's rental units are subject to rules that keep rents cheap.
[6] The "look back" window for rent overcharge claims was extended from four to six years. [11] [12] The HSTPA also instituted a number of new protections for residents of mobile homes. [13] Furthermore, the law permits other New York municipalities to institute their own rent regulations. [10]
The New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) is an agency of the New York state government [1] responsible for administering housing and community development programs to promote affordable housing, community revitalization, and economic growth. Its primary functions include supervising rent regulations through the State ...
The final decision will be made by the city’s Rent Guidelines Board on Tuesday night and set the threshold on how far landlords can go in demanding more cash from tenants.
The Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929; When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing; In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis, Archive Library; Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City; A People's Guide to New York City
[1] The New York Post wrote in 1988 that "critics of 7A say it is so poorly supervised that incompetent and even corrupt administrators have gotten away with years of mispending a building's rent roll." Their page and a half expose was followed by a quarter page "A success story" about one woman (who) "administers several buildings in the 7A ...