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DISCRIMINATION:
Upstate Appeals Court Finds Requirement to Accept Section 8 Vouchers Unconstitutional
Categories: DISCRIMINATION
EVICTION:
Landlord Can Amend Defective Good Cause Eviction Notice
Categories: EVICTION
HARASSMENT:
Court Rescinds CONH After HPD Proves Landlord Harassed SRO Tenants
Categories: HARASSMENT
LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE:
Is Landlord Responsible for Tenant’s Emotional Distress Claim After Building Fire?
Categories: LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE
Is Landlord Responsible for Tenant’s Injuries After Staircase Fall?
Categories: LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE
MISCELLANEOUS:
Nonpurchasing Co-op Tenant Still Protected by Martin Act After Sponsor Sold Shares to Landlord
Categories: MISCELLANEOUS
PROCEDURE-COURT:
Landlord Didn’t Attach Current VAWA Forms to Rent Demand
Categories: PROCEDURE-COURT
Landlord in Civil Contempt for Not Complying with Court Order for Document Production
Categories: PROCEDURE-COURT
PROCEDURE-DHCR:
DHCR Limited Overcharge Finding Where Tenant Didn’t Provide Full Payment History
Categories: PROCEDURE-DHCR
Landlord’s Court Challenge to TPU Ruling Was Moot and Premature
Categories: PROCEDURE-DHCR
Tenant Improperly Challenged Lawful MCI Rent Increase
Categories: PROCEDURE-DHCR
Tenant’s DHCR Overcharge Case Dismissed After Issues Settled in Housing Court
Categories: PROCEDURE-DHCR
RENEWAL LEASES:
DHCR Finds That Housing Court Should Resolve Tenant’s Renewal Lease Complaint
Categories: RENEWAL LEASES
Tenant Must Sign 2022 Renewal Lease Before Landlord Offers 2025 Renewal Lease
Categories: RENEWAL LEASES
RENT:
NYCHA Was Entitled to Recover Section 8 Subsidy Overpayment to Landlord
Categories: RENT
RENT OVERCHARGE:
Court Upholds DHCR Ruling That Apartment Was Properly Deregulated in 2010
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
DHCR Finds No Proof Apartment Was Fraudulently Deregulated
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Kingston Landlord’s Failure to Apply KRGB Downward Rent Adjustment Resulted in Willful Overcharge
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Landlord Didn’t Answer Notice of Overcharge Proceeding
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Landlord Proved Lawful Vacancy-Deregulation of Apartment Through IAIs
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
No Overcharge Where Apartment Was Vacancy-Deregulated in Early 2019
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
No Overcharge to J-51 Building Tenant Following Roberts Ruling
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
No Triple Damages for Rent Increase Based on IAIs Done Without Tenant’s Written Consent
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Rent Overcharge Resulted from Outstanding Rent Reduction Order
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Tenant Gets Triple Damages on Portion of Overcharge Paid by NYCHA
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
Tenants Can’t Add Mortgage Lender to Overcharge Case Against Landlords
Categories: RENT OVERCHARGE
RENT REDUCTION ORDERED:
Closed Community Room Wasn’t a De Minimis Condition
Categories: RENT REDUCTION ORDERED
Court Upholds DHCR’s $5 Monthly Rent Reduction for Trash Disposal Service Modification
Categories: RENT REDUCTION ORDERED
DHCR Properly Relied on Inspection Report to Order Rent Reduction
Categories: RENT REDUCTION ORDERED
Rent Reduction Properly Timed to Cover Period HPD Vacate Order Was in Place
Categories: RENT REDUCTION ORDERED
RENT RESTORED:
DHCR Properly Restored Rent When Apartment’s Habitability Restored
Categories: RENT RESTORED
RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE:
Apartment Was Improperly Deregulated After Period of Temporary Exemption
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Apartment Was Lawfully Vacancy-Deregulated in 2005
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Building Became Rent-Stabilized When Landlord Added Sixth Apartment
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Co-op Apartment Wasn’t Subject to Rent Stabilization or Overcharge Claim
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Landlord Failed to Demonstrate Building Was Exempt Based on Substantial Rehab
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
Two-Family House Was in Fact Six-Unit SRO Building Subject to Rent Stabilization
Categories: RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE
SECURITY DEPOSITS:
Former Tenant Admitted Damaging Apartment
Categories: SECURITY DEPOSITS
Tenant Incorrectly Claimed Last Month’s Rent, Paid in Advance, Was Security Deposit
Categories: SECURITY DEPOSITS
TENANT NUISANCES:
Landlord Must Produce Certain Information Requested by Tenant Prior to Trial
Categories: TENANT NUISANCES
