Rent Cut Issued for No Hot Water

Rent-controlled tenant challenged landlord's report of fuel cost adjustment eligibility for 1990. The DRA ruled for tenant and revoked landlord's eligibility to collect fuel cost adjustments for tenant's apartment. This order was based on a rent-reduction order issued a month earlier based on landlord's failure to provide heat and hot water. Landlord appealed. The DHCR ruled against landlord. Rent control regulations provided that if a rent-reduction order is issued for not providing heat or hot water, a fuel cost adjustment can't be collected for the period that the rent-reduction order remains in effect.

Wahab: DHCR Adm. Rev. Dckt. No. HA220037RO (4/17/97) [3-page document]