A group of owners of buildings now subject to rent stabilization under the City of Kingston’s August 2022 adoption of the ETPA filed a challenge to the city’s actions, arguing that the vacancy study upon...
Shortly after HSTPA was enacted in June 2019, the Community Housing Improvement Program (CHIP), Rent Stabilization Association of NYC (RSA), and several individual landlord entities sued the City of New York, the...
Landlords sued the City of New York, the DHCR, and the NYC Rent Guidelines Board in federal court soon after the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (HSTPA) was enacted to amend the Rent Stabilization...
Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge and improper deregulation of the apartment. The DRA ruled for tenant, found that the unit was rent- stabilized, and directed landlord to file annual rent registrations...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The DRA correctly found that the DOB...
Landlord applied for a ruling from the DHCR that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation. Landlord said that it bought the vacant building in 2021 and performed gut...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to a substantial rehabilitation landlord claimed was completed between 1978 and 1981. The DRA ruled against landlord.
Building complex tenants sued landlord in 2020, claiming that changes to the NYC Rent Stabilization Law made under the HSTPA in 2019 barred landlord from deregulating 6,200 apartments. Landlord argued in response...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization because it had been substantially rehabilitated between November 2013 and September 2014. The DRA ruled for landlord. One...
Tenant asked the DHCR for a ruling on whether his apartment was subject to rent stabilization, claiming the pre-war building at one point contained six apartments. Landlord claimed that the building contained fewer...
Tenant complaied to the DHCR, claiming that she was rent stabilized and that landlord refused to give her a lease. Landlord argued that the building was a four-family brownstone building and therefore not subject to...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization based on substantial rehabilitation in 2021. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. Landlord argued that...
