Apartment Rented by Nonprofit Temporarily Exempt from Rent Stabilization

(Decision submitted by Tony Subraj, Vice President of Zara Realty, which represented the landlord.)

The DHCR's Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) filed a rent overcharge complaint with the DRA, claiming that the rent of $2,000 per month charged by landlord to tenant in August 2015 was an overcharge. The DRA ruled against TPU and found no overcharge. Tenant was a nonprofit entity that paid monthly rent on behalf of clients who were part of its program. The housing accommodations were operated, leased, or rented under government funding by an institution operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes on a nonprofit basis. And the apartment occupant's initial occupancy was contingent upon an affiliation with the nonprofit institution. So, under Rent Stabilization Code Section 2520.11(f), the apartment was exempt from rent stabilization.

Communilife, Inc.: DHCR DRO Docket No. FN110058R (3/8/19) [2-pg. doc.]