NYS DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Daughter Proved Succession Rights

July 19, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant's daughter filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR in 2020 after landlord refused to offer her a renewal lease in her name. Tenant moved out in 2009, and the daughter claimed...

DHCR Specifies Valid Grounds for a Lease Violation Complaint

July 19, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of a lease violation. She claimed that landlord's lease renewals didn't provide the correct RGB rent increase percentages. The DRA dismissed tenant's...

Collectible Rent Frozen Due to Failure to Register Apartment

July 19, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled for tenant, finding an improper increase in 2015. The DRA also froze the collectible rent due to landlord's failure to register the...

Landlord Not Required to Add Tenant's Domestic Partner to Renewal Lease

July 19, 2022    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to add his domestic partner to his lease as a co-tenant. Tenant submitted a copy of 2019 Certificate of Domestic Partnership, which had been...

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Son Gets Apartment

July 19, 2022    

The son of deceased rent-stabilized tenant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give him a renewal lease. The son claimed succession rights and said he had lived in the apartment with tenant for 20 years...

Landlord Claims Building Was Substantially Rehabilitated

July 19, 2022    

Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling in 2018 that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation in 2014. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The DHCR found that...

Landlord Must Give Improperly Deregulated Tenant a Rent-Stabilized Lease

July 19, 2022    

Tenant complained to the DHCR that his apartment had been illegally deregulated and that landlord refused to renew his lease. Landlord argued that, while prior landlord owned the building, a subtenant moved into the...

Landlord Can Change Laundry Room Service, with Rent Reduction

July 19, 2022    

Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to modify required services in a condo building with some rent-stabilized units, by eliminating the small laundry rooms on each floor and replacing them with one central laundry...

DHCR Proceeding to Determine Regulatory Status Incorrectly Considered Rent Overcharge

July 19, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR to determine her apartment's rent-regulatory status and set the legal rent. She had lived in the unit since 2008 and claimed that it had been improperly deregulated. Landlord claimed that...

Landlord Can't Amend 2019 Rent Registration

July 18, 2022    

Landlord asked the DHCR for permission to amend the 2019 rent registration for Apt. 54 in its building. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Landlord claimed that it mistakenly registered the...

Pre-1974 Building That Now Contains Six Apartments Is Rent Stabilized

July 18, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR in 2020 for a ruling on whether she was rent stabilized. Tenant had lived in the building since 2011, claimed that the building was constructed prior to 1974, and currently contained a store and...

Landlord Can't Collect MCI Rent Hike from Tenant During Vacancy Lease Term

July 18, 2022    

The DHCR granted landlord's application for MCI rent hikes based on facade work. One tenant appealed, claiming that he wasn't subject to an MCI rent increase during the term of his vacancy lease, signed in...