UNIT/BUILDING COVERED

Appeals Court Upholds DHCR Explanatory Addenda Applying Post-HSTPA Repeal of Luxury Deregulation

June 16, 2022    

In separate DHCR proceedings, landlord applied for high-rent/high-income deregulation of three rent-stabilized apartments. In each case, the DRA issued an order of deregulation, which explained that the units each...

Tenants of Illegally Converted Building Are Rent Stabilized

May 25, 2022    

Building tenants sued landlord, claiming that they were rent stabilized and seeking correction of violations. When landlord bought the building in 2018, it contained eight residential units, including three SRO units...

DHCR Complied with HSTPA by Dismissing Pending LD Applications

May 17, 2022    

Landlord filed three separate applications for high-rent/high-income deregulation of apartments in its building in 2018. In November 2019, the DRA dismissed all three applications based on the June 14, 2019,...

Hospital Employee Permitted to Stay in Apartment After Employment Ended Became Rent Stabilized

April 15, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR to determine the rent-regulated status of her apartment. Tenant said landlord never gave her a lease but that she moved into the unit in September 2008 at a monthly rent of $800 under an...

Conversion from Six to Five Apartments Didn't Remove Building from Rent Stabilization

April 15, 2022    

Tenant asked the DHCR to rule on her apartment's rent regulatory status. Tenant claimed that she was rent stabilized. Landlord argued that the building was unregulated because, although it previously contained...

Landlord Improperly Deregulated Rent-Stabilized Apartment

March 28, 2022    

Tenant sued landlord for rent overcharge and fraudulent deregulation of his apartment. Tenant moved into the unit in 2014 under a one-year lease that included a deregulation notice. Tenant claimed that the...

Building That Currently Contained Six or More Apartments Was Rent Stabilized

March 21, 2022    

Tenant filed an "AD" application and asked the DHCR to rule on whether he was subject to rent regulation. Landlord claimed that the building was legally converted to a five-unit apartment building in 1936...

Building Had Six Apartments and Was Subject to Rent Stabilization

March 21, 2022    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of a reduction of services in his apartment. Landlord argued that tenant wasn't rent stabilized because the building contained only five apartments. The DRA then opened an "AD...

Long-Term Tenant with No Lease Was Subject to Rent Stabilization

March 21, 2022    

In 2017, tenant filed an administrative proceeding application with the DHCR, and sought a ruling on the rent-regulated status of her apartment. She had lived in the building for 43 years, and in the subject...

Building That Previously Had Six Apartments Was Rent Stabilized

February 18, 2022    

Landlord sued to evict a month-to-month tenant and claimed that tenant was unregulated because the building contained fewer than six apartments. Landlord had bought the building in bankruptcy in 2015, and it...

1991 Rent Reduction Order Prevented Vacancy Deregulation of Apartment

December 22, 2021    

Landlord sued to evict unregulated tenants for nonpayment of rent. Tenants claimed that they were rent stabilized and asked the court to dismiss the case. They also claimed rent overcharge, and sought attorney's...

HPD Regulatory Agreement Didn't Exempt Building from Rent Stabilization

December 21, 2021    

Tenant complained to the DHCR of rent overcharge. Landlord claimed that the apartment wasn't rent stabilized because the building's mortgage Subordination Agreement and Regulatory Agreement with the City of...