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Tenant's Great-Niece Can't Get Mitchell-Lama Co-op Apartment

April 25, 2025    

An apartment occupant claimed succession rights to a Mitchell-Lama co-op apartment after the shareholder tenants died. Tenant husband died in 1995, and his wife died in 2022. She had been admitted to a nursing home...

Daughter Gets Apartment of Tenants Who Retained Rent-Controlled Status After Transfer

April 24, 2025    

The daughter of deceased tenants sought succession rights to their apartment in a DHCR application. The daughter claimed that the unit was rent controlled. Tenants had moved from one apartment to another in the same...

Rent-Controlled Tenant's Daughter Fails to Prove Succession Rights

April 23, 2025    

Rent-controlled tenant's daughter applied to the DHCR in 2021 for a ruling that she had succession rights to the apartment after tenant died in March 2020. The DRA ruled against the daughter, who appealed and...

Rent-Controlled Tenant's Son Can't Get Apartment

April 23, 2025    

The son of a rent-controlled tenant applied to the DHCR in 2023 for a determination that he had succession rights to the apartment after tenant moved out in 2022. The DRA ruled against the son, who appealed and lost...

Mitchell-Lama Tenant's Mother Fails to Prove Succession Rights

March 26, 2025    

After the tenant of an affordable housing unit under the Mitchell-Lama program moved out of his apartment, tenant's mother claimed succession rights. HPD denied the mother's succession request. Tenant's...

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Son Fails to Prove Succession Rights

March 24, 2025    

An apartment occupant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR. He claimed that he was the son of the rent-stabilized tenant of record, that tenant moved into the unit in 1979, that he was born there in 1986...

Project-Based Section 8 Tenant's Son Gets Apartment After Tenant Dies

January 27, 2025    

Landlord sued to evict the son of the deceased tenant of a project-based Section 8 apartment, claiming that he was a squatter or licensee whose right to occupy the unit had expired. The son claimed succession rights...

Prior Court Stipulation that Deemed Tenants Rent Stabilized Permitted Pass-on Rights for Daughter

January 26, 2025    

(Decision submitted by David Hershey-Webb, of the Manhattan law firm of Himmelstein McConnell Gribben & Joseph LLP, attorneys for the tenant.)

Rent-Stabilized Tenant's Son Can't Get Renewal Lease While Tenant Still Living in Apartment

January 20, 2025    

Rent-stabilized tenant's son complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to offer him a renewal lease. Landlord claimed that the son didn't live in the apartment. In response, the son claimed that he'd...

Nephew of Mitchell-Lama Co-op Tenant Fails to Prove Succession Rights

December 19, 2024    

After the tenant-shareholder of a Mitchell-Lama co-op apartment died, her nephew claimed succession rights to the apartment. HPD held a hearing, ruled against the nephew, and issued a certificate of eviction to the...

RFAI Returned to DHCR Indicated Daughter Didn't Live in Apartment

November 24, 2024    

An apartment occupant filed a lease violation complaint with the DHCR, claiming that she had lived in a rent-stabilized apartment since 1994 and that landlord failed to sign and return a renewal lease to her for the...

Landlord's Notice to Quit to Son After Tenant's Death Was Proper and Sufficient

November 20, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict occupant of project-based Section 8 apartment after tenant died. The occupant claimed that he was tenant's son and had succession rights. Landlord claimed that the occupant was now a...