An apartment occupant complained to the DHCR that landlord refused to give her a rent-stabilized lease. The DRA ruled against occupant, finding that she initially occupied the apartment as an incident to her...
On March 1, 2024, New York Governor Hochul signed into law "Chapter Amendments" to certain Rent Stabilization Law (RSL) and Emergency Tenant Protection Act (ETPA) amendments that were enacted on Dec. 22,...
Landlord asked the DHCR for a ruling that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to a substantial rehabilitation performed after Jan. 1, 1974. The DRA ruled against landlord, who appealed and lost. The...
White Plains tenants complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA ruled against tenants and dismissed their complaint, finding that the apartment had been vacancy-deregulated in 2006 before tenants moved in....
Apartment licensee Joseph complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. The DRA terminated the proceeding because the licensee's initial occupancy was contingent upon her employment with Maimonides Medical Center (...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that its building was exempt from rent stabilization due to substantial rehabilitation of the property in 1989. The DRA ruled for landlord since the sub rehab took...
Landlord applied to the DHCR for a determination that its building was exempt from rent stabilization as the result of a substantial rehabilitation in 1989. The DRA ruled for landlord but found that tenants of four...
A tenant filed an application with the DHCR, seeking an administrative determination that the building he lived in was subject to rent stabilization. He said that the building was built before 1974, contained at...
In 2021, new landlord filed five applications with the DHCR, seeking a declaration that each building in a five-building complex was exempt from rent stabilization as the result of substantial rehabilitation of the...
Landlord sued to evict apartment occupant as a licensee after sending a 10-day notice to quit. Landlord claimed that the apartment wasn't rent stabilized because the building contained only four apartments. In...
Landlord sued to evict tenant from a four-family house based on nonpayment of rent. Landlord alleged that the apartment was unregulated, but tenant claimed that it was rent stabilized because the building was part of...
Landlords sued the City of New York, the DHCR, and the NYC Rent Guidelines Board in federal court soon after the HSTPA was enacted in 2019 to amend the Rent Stabilization Law. Among other things, they claimed that...
