RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE

Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal of Luxury Deregulation Applications Still Pending When HSTPA Enacted

March 27, 2025    

Landlord filed two separate applications with the DHCR, in 2017 and 2018, seeking high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment. These applications were still pending before the DHCR on...

Newly Created Apartment Was Never Deregulated

March 27, 2025    

Landlord sued to evict tenant it claimed was unregulated. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized, that her apartment had been improperly deregulated, and that she had been overcharged.

Tenant Who Requested Move to Deregulated Apartment Was No Longer Rent Stabilized

February 25, 2025    

A Bronxville tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. She lived in a rent-stabilized apartment in landlord's building, and later moved into a different, unregulated apartment in the same building. Tenant...

Apartment Subject to Regulatory Agreement Between Landlord and HPD

February 24, 2025    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment was subject to rent stabilization. Tenant appealed and lost. In a prior DHCR ruling, the agency found that a...

Landlord Entitled to First Rent for Newly Created Rent-Stabilized Apartment

February 24, 2025    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of his apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant in part, finding that the apartment was subject to rent stabilization but that there was no...

HUD Project-Based Section 8 Building Wasn't Subject to Rent Stabilization

February 24, 2025    

Tenant complained to the DHCR that he was rent stabilized and that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that tenant received a HUD project-based Section 8 subsidy from...

Landlord Proved Building Was Substantially Rehabilitated in 1988-1989

February 24, 2025    

Landlord applied to the DHCR in 2023 for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent regulation due to substantial rehabilitation of the building in 1988-1989. The DRA ruled against landlord, finding that...

Tenants' Claim of Improper Deregulation Dismissed

January 27, 2025    

Former and current tenants of five buildings sued landlords, claiming that the current and prior landlords engaged in a scheme designed to evade New York's rent regulations. The court granted landlord's...

Was Vacancy Deregulation of Tenant's Apartment Lawful?

January 26, 2025    

Tenants sued landlord, claiming rent overcharge and improper deregulation of a rent-stabilized apartment in 2008 after the prior rent-controlled tenant moved out. The court denied landlord's request for a ruling...

Court of Appeals Upholds Prevention of Luxury Deregulation After June 14, 2019 Despite Pre-HSTPA Deregulation Orders

January 24, 2025    

In separate DHCR proceedings, landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of three rent-stabilized apartments. In each case, the DRA issued an order of deregulation prior to June 14, 2019, which each...

Landlord Must Offer Tenant Rent-Stabilized Renewal Lease

January 22, 2025    

Tenant complained in 2022 that landlord failed to offer her a rent-stabilized renewal lease. Tenant signed an initial lease in 2016 at a rent of $2,800 per month. Landlord claimed that the building was exempt from...

Tenants Didn't Prove Their Apartments Were SRO Units

January 22, 2025    

Five tenants applied to the DHCR for a ruling on the regulatory status of their apartments. They claimed that they were improperly deregulated, that the building was a Class B multiple dwelling, and therefore subject...