PROCEDURE-DHCR

Landlord Must Wait for Final DHCR Ruling on Remanded Case Before Filing Appeal

September 24, 2024    

Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant in 2023, finding that the apartment had been vacancy deregulated in 2018 when...

Late PAR Accepted Because DRA Didn't Mail Copy of Order to Tenants' Attorney

September 19, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent hikes based on elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled for landlord and increased tenants' rents. The DHCR dismissed the tenant association's PAR because it was filed...

DHCR Won't Consider Lease Records Submitted for the First Time with Tenant's PAR

August 26, 2024    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant. The base rent date was June 14, 2015, all monthly rent adjustments since the base date had been lawful, and there were...

PAR Sent by Fed Ex More Than 35 Days after DRO Order Issued Was Dismissed as Untimely

July 22, 2024    

Tenant filed a PAR to appeal a DHCR Rent Administrator's order issued on May 19, 2022. The DHCR dismissed the PAR because it was filed more than two years after the DRA's order was issued. Tenant claimed that...

DHCR Will Decide Tenant's Lease Violation Claim in Rent Overcharge Proceeding

June 24, 2024    

Tenant claimed that he was rent stabilized and complained to the DHCR that landlord had offered him an improper unregulated lease, which he had signed. Tenant later withdrew the complaint when he was moving out of...

DHCR Granted Landlord's Request for Reconsideration of Rent Administrator's Order

February 20, 2024    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for MCI rent increases based on elevator upgrading. The DRA ruled against landlord on Dec. 17, 2021. Landlord appealed and won. Before filing a Petition for Administrative Review (PAR),...

DHCR Advises Tenant to Pursue Lease Renewal Complaint in Court

October 24, 2023    

Section 8 tenant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that landlord refused to correct her last rent-stabilized renewal lease. The DRA terminated the proceeding and advised tenant to go back to...

DHCR Won't Accept Proof of Lease Renewal Offer Filed for First Time with PAR

October 24, 2023    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord failed to provide a timely renewal lease. The DRA ruled for tenant after landlord failed to respond to the DRA's notice of tenant's complaint....

Landlord Who Filed Incorrect Form for Rent Increase Under Rent Control Can Refile

October 23, 2023    

A Nassau County rent-controlled tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord filed a duplicate application to the agency for a maximum collectible rent adjustment in 2023. The DRA ruled for tenant and dismissed...

Tenant Association Has No Standing to Challenge Determination of Housing Company's Capital Structure

August 28, 2023    

The Tenant Association of an affordable housing community governed by PHFL Article IV challenged an approval letter issued by the DHCR in September 2022, arguing that the decision set forth in that letter violated...

DHCR Reasonably Denied Landlord Request to Amend Rent Registration

March 23, 2023    

In 2019, landlord asked the DHCR for permission to amend its annual rent registration summaries for 2016 and 2017 by removing an apartment from the total rent-stabilized units and adding it to the total number of...

Prior DHCR Approval Not Needed to File Late Apartment Registrations

March 21, 2023    

In 2022, landlord submitted annual apartment registration forms for one apartment to the DHCR, noting that the apartment hadn't previously been registered for the years 2009 to 2016, and that a separate DHCR...