UNIT/BUILDING COVERED

Landlord Didn't Prove Apartment Was Properly Vacancy-Deregulated

September 26, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR in 2018 for an administrative determination (AD) that his apartment was subject to rent stabilization. In response, landlord claimed that the unit had been vacancy-deregulated. 

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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...

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...

Appeals Court Upholds DHCR Explanatory Addenda Applying Post-HSTPA Repeal of Luxury Deregulation

June 16, 2022    

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, which explained that the units each...

Tenants of Illegally Converted Building Are Rent Stabilized

May 25, 2022    

Building tenants sued landlord, claiming that they were rent stabilized and seeking correction of violations. When landlord bought the building in 2018, it contained eight residential units, including three SRO units...

DHCR Complied with HSTPA by Dismissing Pending LD Applications

May 17, 2022    

Landlord filed three separate applications for high-rent/high-income deregulation of apartments in its building in 2018. In November 2019, the DRA dismissed all three applications based on the June 14, 2019,...

Hospital Employee Permitted to Stay in Apartment After Employment Ended Became Rent Stabilized

April 15, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR to determine the rent-regulated status of her apartment. Tenant said landlord never gave her a lease but that she moved into the unit in September 2008 at a monthly rent of $800 under an...

Conversion from Six to Five Apartments Didn't Remove Building from Rent Stabilization

April 15, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR to rule on her apartment's rent regulatory status. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized. Landlord argued that the building was unregulated because, although it previously contained...

Landlord Improperly Deregulated Rent-Stabilized Apartment

March 28, 2022    

Tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge and fraudulent deregulation of his apartment. Tenant moved into the unit in 2014 under a one-year lease that included a deregulation notice. Tenant claimed that the...

Building That Currently Contained Six or More Apartments Was Rent Stabilized

March 21, 2022    

Tenant filed an "AD" application and asked the DHCR to rule on whether he was subject to rent regulation. Landlord claimed that the building was legally converted to a five-unit apartment building in 1936...