RENT CONTROL COVERAGE

High-Rent Apartment Remains Rent-Controlled After J-51 Benefits End

September 25, 2017    

Landlord applied in 2011, 2014, and 2016 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment. The legal rent for each of those periods was above the deregulation threshold and J-51...

High-Rent Apartment Remains Rent-Controlled After J-51 Benefits End

August 19, 2017    

Landlord applied in 2014 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment since tenant's rent was over $2,500 and the building's J-51 tax benefits had expired. The DRA ruled...

DHCR Improperly Removed Husband's Income from Consideration After Husband Died

July 24, 2017    

Landlord applied in 2011 for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment. The DRA ruled for landlord, finding that tenant's annual household income was more than $175,000 in both...

Rent-Controlled Tenant Not Subject to Deregulation After J-51 Benefits End

June 24, 2017    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant's rent-controlled apartment in 2012, 2013, and 2014. The DRA ruled against landlord because, as a matter of law, the apartment remained exempt...

Rent-Controlled Tenant Not Subject to Deregulation After J-51 Benefits End

March 28, 2017    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant’s rent-controlled apartment in 2016. The DRA ruled against landlord because, as a matter of law, the apartment remained exempt from high-rent/...

Rent-Controlled Apartment Can't Get Deregulated After J-51 Benefits Expire

March 6, 2017    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant’s rent-controlled apartment in 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2016. The DRA ruled against landlord because the building previously received J-51 tax...

Rent-Controlled Apartment in Building with Expired J-51 Benefits Not Subject to Deregulation

February 24, 2017    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant’s rent-controlled apartment in 2011. The DRA ruled against landlord because rent-controlled apartments continue to be exempt from luxury...

Tenant Is Rent Stabilized, Not Rent Controlled

September 28, 2016    

Tenant complained of rent overcharge in 2014. She claimed that she had lived in the apartment since 1969 and that landlord illegally withdrew the apartment from rent control. Landlord had registered the apartment as...

Income of Remaining Co-Tenant Was Below Deregulation Threshold

September 23, 2016    

Landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of tenant’s rent-controlled apartment in 2006, after serving an Income Certification Form (ICF) on April 27, 2006. The DHCR ruled against landlord. The...

Tenants Were Rent Controlled, Not Rent Stabilized

May 24, 2016    

Rent-controlled tenants complained of rent overcharge. They claimed that they moved into the apartment in 1968 and in 2007 landlord started issuing leases and improper rent increases. In a separate decision, the DHCR...

DHCR Changes Rent Set for Rent-Controlled Tenant from $184 to $759

May 24, 2016    

In 2013, tenant asked the DHCR to determine his rent regulatory status after landlord started an eviction proceeding against him, claiming that tenant was unregulated. Tenant claimed that he was rent controlled and...

Tenant Claims He's Rent-Controlled Based on Succession Claim

April 26, 2016    

Rent-stabilized tenant complained that his mother had been the apartment’s rent-controlled tenant, that he had succession rights, and that therefore he should be rent controlled instead of rent stabilized. The...