RENT STABILIZATION COVERAGE

Court Upholds Kingston's Adoption of ETPA But Vacates RGB's Retroactive Rent Reductions

March 27, 2023    

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...

Federal Appeals Court Denies Landlords' Constitutional Challenge to Rent Stabilization Law

March 23, 2023    

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...

Federal Appeals Court Finds No Fifth Amendment Taking or Due Process Violation by HSTPA Amendments to RSL

March 23, 2023    

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...

Landlord Showed No Proof It Had Filed an Exemption Application with DHCR

March 21, 2023    

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 Didn't Show That 75 Percent of Building Systems Were Replaced

March 21, 2023    

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 Didn't Submit Sufficient Proof of Claimed Substantial Rehab

March 21, 2023    

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...

Building Rehabbed Under PHFL Program with HUD Financing Remained Rent Stabilized

March 21, 2023    

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.

HSTPA Bars Deregulation of Stuyvesant Town Units After J-51 Tax Benefits Expire

February 22, 2023    

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...

Building Was Exempt from Rent Stabilization Due to Substantial Rehab

February 21, 2023    

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...

Building with Illegal SRO Units Contained at Least Six Housing Accommodations

February 21, 2023    

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...

Four-Family Brownstone with at Least Two Additional Apartments Was Rent Stabilized

February 21, 2023    

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 Submitted Insufficient Proof of Substantial Rehab

February 21, 2023    

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...