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A New York landlord has an arrest warrant with his name on it for racking up more than 30 housing code violations during a four-year-period for a Bronx apartment building he owns.
In 1920, New York adopted the Emergency Rent Laws, which effectively charged the courts of New York State with their administration. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The rent laws were the result of a series of widespread rent strikes in New York City from 1918 to 1920 that had been sparked by a World War 1 housing shortage, and the subsequent land ...
New York City recently made it legal to add a housing unit to certain one- and two-family homes. But both city and state regulations will drastically limit construction, experts say. A state law ...
HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch. [3]
New York City housing codes prevent overcrowding by restricting the number of people who are legally allowed to occupy a unit, as well as the number of bedrooms within a unit. [ 17 ] Moreover, New York’s public housing stock, a vital tool for reducing homelessness and maintaining the number of affordable units, has fallen into disrepair as ...
From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
The authority receives $1.5 billion in annual funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Williams' office said. "NYCHA residents deserve better," Williams said in a statement.
Javins v. First National Realty Corp., 428 F.2d 1071 (D.C. Cir. 1970), was a case decided by the D.C. Circuit that first established the warranty of habitability in landlord–tenant law.