HIGH-RENT DEREGULATION

Court Finds DHCR Negligent for Not Timely Processing 2016 Deregulation Application

January 5, 2024    

In May 2016, landlord timely applied to the DHCR for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment. The DRA ruled against landlord in November 2019, and dismissed the application...

Court Finds DHCR Improperly Delayed Processing Deregulation Applications

May 23, 2023    

[Submitted by Jillian N. Bittner, Esq., of Horing Welikson Rosen & Digrugilliers PC, who represented the landlord.]

Landlord filed two separate applications with the DHCR, in 2017 and 2018,...

DHCR Didn't Delay Processing Landlord's Deregulation Application

August 22, 2022    

Landlord applied in May 2018 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment based on contested household income for the years 2016 and 2017. The DRA denied landlord's application...

DHCR Denies Undue Delay in Deciding Deregulation Application

July 22, 2022    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2017. The DRA didn't decide landlord's application until November 2019. At that point, HSTPA had repealed...

Termination of Landlord's Luxury Deregulation Application Was Lawful

June 23, 2022    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2013. The DRA ruled against landlord in 2020 because the HSTPA had repealed the provisions of the laws and codes...

Tenant's Default in Response to 2014 Luxury Deregulation Application Vacated

June 22, 2022    

Landlord applied to the DHCR for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2014. Landlord pointed out that tenant failed to respond to the Income Certification Form (ICF) that...

DHCR Didn't Unreasonably Delay Processing Landlord's 2017 Deregulation Application

April 17, 2022    

Landlord filed an application for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2017. In November 2019, the DRA denied landlord's application based on the June 14, 2019, passage...

DHCR Properly Denied Deregulation Applications Filed in 2019

April 17, 2022    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of six separate apartments in early 2019. While these applications were pending on June 14, 2019, the HSTPA prospectively repealed luxury deregulations of the...

Appeals Court Upholds DHCR Explanatory Addenda Concerning Pre-HSTPA Deregulation Orders

March 28, 2022    

Landlord filed for high-rent/high-income deregulation of three rent-stabilized apartments. Prior to June 14, 2019, when the HSTPA prospectively discontinued luxury deregulation of rent-regulated apartments, the DHCR...

Was Tenant's Income Below High-Rent/High-Income Deregulation Threshold?

January 24, 2022    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2011. The DRA ruled for landlord in 2017 after the Dept. of Taxation and Finance (DTF) couldn't make a tax...

Landlord Proves Lawful High-Rent Vacancy Deregulation of Tenant's Apartment

December 21, 2021    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of her apartment. The DRA ruled against tenant, finding that the apartment had been legally deregulated.

DHCR Upholds Application of HSTPA to Dismiss Luxury Deregulation Application

October 26, 2021    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-stabilized apartment in 2017 after tenant failed to respond to the Income Certification Form (ICF) that landlord had sent him. In November...