A tenant filed an application with the DHCR, seeking an administrative determination that the building he lived in was subject to rent stabilization. He said that the building was built before 1974, contained at...
In 2021, new landlord filed five applications with the DHCR, seeking a declaration that each building in a five-building complex was exempt from rent stabilization as the result of substantial rehabilitation of the...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant as a licensee after sending a 10-day notice to quit. Landlord claimed that the apartment wasn't rent stabilized because the building contained only four apartments. In...
Landlord sued to evict tenant from a four-family house based on nonpayment of rent. Landlord alleged that the apartment was unregulated, but tenant claimed that it was rent stabilized because the building was part of...
Landlords sued the City of New York, the DHCR, and the NYC Rent Guidelines Board in federal court soon after the HSTPA was enacted in 2019 to amend the Rent Stabilization Law. Among other things, they claimed that...
In 2007, rent-stabilized tenants, who were husband and wife, relocated from their apartment to another unit in the building at the prior landlord's request. The new apartment was unregulated, and tenants received...
Tenant complained to the DHCR in 2018 of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the unit was deregulated in 2009, which was prior to the 2014 base rent...
Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper apartment deregulation in April 2019. Landlord claimed that there was no overcharge and that the unit had been vacancy-deregulated when...
Tenant asked the DHCR for a ruling on her regulatory status, claiming that she was subject to rent stabilization. The DRA ruled for tenant and set her legal regulated rent at $1,190.
On Dec. 22, 2023, NYS Governor Hochul signed into law State Senate Bill 2980-C, the long-awaited amendments to the the Rental Stabilization Law, ETPA, and rent control laws. As pointed out in in her "Approval...
Landlord sought a ruling from the DHCR that its building was exempt from rent stabilization based on a substantial rehabilitation that took place after Jan. 1, 1974. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and...
Tenant asked the DHCR for a ruling on the regulatory status of his apartment, as well as the legal rent. Landlord claimed that the unit was properly deregulated based on high-rent vacancy in 2011 when an exit...
