Landlord Can Collect Labor Cost Adjustment Despite Rent Cut Order

Rent-controlled tenant complained of a rent overcharge. The DRA issued an order stating the current maximum rent that included a labor cost adjustment. Tenant appealed, claiming that landlord shouldn't have been granted a $22 monthly labor cost adjustment in 1995 because a rent reduction order was in effect. The DHCR ruled against tenant. Tenant had filed a prior PAR against the labor cost adjustment order. That PAR was denied. So tenant couldn't attack the DHCR's prior labor cost adjustment order again in the rent overcharge case.

Sockolow: DHCR Adm. Rev. Dckt. No. OA220082RT (8/10/00) [3-pg. doc.]