SCRIE or DRIE Tenant Exempt from Part of Rent Hike

Landlord applied for MCI rent hikes based on the installation of a new boiler/burner. The DRA ruled for landlord. Tenant appealed, claiming that she couldn't afford the rent hike. The DHCR ruled against tenant. This claim wasn't grounds to revoke the rent hike. But there were some limits on the rent hike. Landlord could collect no more than 6 percent of tenant's rent in effect in September 2007 for any 12-month period. And if tenant had a valid rent exemption under the SCRIE or DRIE program, tenant was exempt from that portion of the MCI rent hike that would cause the rent to be more than one-third of her household monthly disposable income.

91-32/34 195 Street: DHCR Adm. Rev. Docket No. WB110003RT (5/21/08) [3-pg. doc.]