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Failure to provide these may allow the tenant to receive a lower rent. [4] Outside of New York City, the state government determines the maximum rents and rate increases, and owners may periodically apply for increases. In New York City, rent control is based on the Maximum Base Rent system. A maximum allowable rent is established for each unit.
After the 2018 elections – in which Democrats took control of the New York State Senate for the first time in a decade and just the third time in 50 years [2] – momentum began on behalf of changes to landlord-tenant law. [3] [4] Eventually, a package of nine bills emerged which incorporated a large number of proposed changes. [5]
The New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) is an agency of the New York state government [1] responsible for administering housing and community development programs to promote affordable housing, community revitalization, and economic growth. Its primary functions include supervising rent regulations through the State ...
Justices decline to hear landlords' claim that rent controls in New York City and potentially beyond violate the Constitution's ban on government taking of private property.
The U. S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal contending that New York City's rent control laws are unconstitutional. James and Jeanne Harmon, who own a five-story brownstone ...
Real Property Actions & Proceedings (RPA) Article 7-A Special Proceedings By Tenants of Dwellings In the City of New York and the Counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland and Westchester For Judgment Directing Deposit of Rents and the Use Thereof For the Purpose of Remedying Conditions Dangerous to Life, Health or Safety in the Consolidated Laws of New York from the New York State Senate
(Rent-control laws place a ceiling on how much landlords can charge tenants for rent to keep prices stabilized.) Even so, Koch did live in Gracie Mansion , the official mayoral residence in New York.
The law was administered by the New York City Loft Board. The 1982 Loft Law should not be confused with the artists' loft law, Article 7-b of the New York State Multiple Dwelling Law nor with rent control legislation, which limits the ability of landlords to increase the rent of certain long-term tenants. The artists' loft law requires that the ...