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    Mayor’s Office Announces Launch of Ad Campaign to Promote Tenants Rights

    Tenant Rights  •  Citywide

    One of the new advertisements that are a part of a campaign by the Mayor’s office to inform tenants of their rights. Image Credit: Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants

    de Blasio Administration educates tenants on Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act. On October 21, 2019, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the launch of a campaign to educate tenants on their new rights under the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019.  The Mayor’s Office designed the advertisements to protect tenants and give New York City renters the information they need to hold their landlords accountable. (read more…)

    Tags : affordable housing, evictions, Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants, rent regulation, Tenant Rights
    Date:11/05/2019
    Category : Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants
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    Governor Cuomo Signs Sweeping Rent Control and Rent Stabilization Reforms into Law

    Rent stabilization  •  Statewide

    Image Credit: New York Senate.

    The law places limits on various mechanisms through which landlords of rent-regulated units can raise rent and provides many other protections for tenants. On June 14, 2019, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, which Cuomo called “the most sweeping, aggressive protections in state history.” The legislation extends and strengthens rent protections for tenants across the state and went into effect before the expiration of the existing rent regulations on June 15, 2019.  The new legislation makes the rules permanent, repeals high-rent vacancy deregulation and vacancy and longevity bonuses, reforms rent increases for major capital improvements and individual apartment improvements, creates protections for tenants across the state, and allows communities outside of the City to opt into rent stabilization. Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins sponsored the bills with many co-sponsors in both the State Senate and State Assembly. (read more…)

    Tags : affordable housing protections, Governor Cuomo, Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, individual apartment improvement rent increases, major capital improvement rent increases, New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, preferential rent, rent deregulation, rent regulation, rental guideline board, repeal vacancy and longevity bonuses, tenant protection during co-op conversion
    Date:06/19/2019
    Category : Governor
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    Landlord Wins Decontrol Dispute in First Department

    Luxury Decontrol  •  East Village, Manhattan

    233 E 5th Street. Image credit: GoogleMaps

    Post-vacancy rent increase raised rent beyond $2,000 threshold and resulted in decontrolling a rent-stabilized apartment. In November 2003, Craig Smith and Elise Stone rented an apartment at 233 East 5th Street in Manhattan. Prior to their occupancy, the previous tenant resided in the unit as a rent-stabilized tenant. The previous tenant’s rent at the end of his occupancy was $1,836.20 per month. On renting the apartment Smith and Stone accepted a 20-percent vacancy increase. This increase in rent brought the apartment’s rent above luxury decontrol threshold of $2,000 in effect at the time. (read more…)

    Tags : East Village, rent regulation, Supreme Court Appellate Term
    Date:08/01/2017
    Category : Court Decisions
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    Trump Village Loses Utility Claim

    Rent Regulation  •  West Brighton, Brooklyn

    Trump Village at 2940 Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn. Image Credit: GoogleMaps.

    Residents of Trump Village challenged size of rent reduction when Trump Village switched to individual electric metering. Trump Village, located at 2940 Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn, has 433 rent-regulated apartments. In January 2006, Trump Village applied to the State Division of Housing and Community Renewal to convert Trump Village to individual electric metering and to separate the cost of electricity from rent payments of tenants. In June 2006, the Division approved Trump Village’s application, including a required rent reduction based on the Division’s Operational Bulletin 2003.  Some tenants filed for administrative review with the Division, which the Division rejected in April 2008.  In June 2008, Michael Knee, a tenant, along with the Concerned Tenants For Equitable Submetering commenced an article 78 challenging the rent reduction. They argued that the Division should have updated its Operational Bulletin 2003 using data from the 2005 NYC Housing Survey.  While the petition was pending, the Division updated the Operational Bulletin. (read more…)

    Tags : Appellate Division First Department, rent regulation, Trump Village
    Date:03/23/2017
    Category : Court Decisions
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    Rent Stabilization: Preserving Low and Middle-Income Housing

    Cover Article by Steve Cohen
    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins/CityLaw

    Image credit: Jeff Hopkins/CityLaw

    Rent regulation is not a new issue for New York City. But the headlines in June 2015 were far larger and the reactions more contentious than at any time in recent memory. For the first time in its 46-year history, the Rent Guidelines Board decided that there would be no increase in rents for one-year renewals on rent-stabilized apartments; it also limited increases on two year renewals to two-percent. Not surprisingly, tenants hailed the decision and landlords decried it.

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    Tags : 421-a, affordable housing, Department of City Planning, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC Rent Guidelines Board, rent regulation
    Date:09/24/2015
    Category : CityLaw
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    Rent Guidelines Board Holds Rents at Current Levels

    Rent Regulation  •  Citywide
    Councilmembers Jumaane Williams (center) and Ben Kallos (left) at a rally for rent reform. Image credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council

    Councilmembers Jumaane Williams (center) and Ben Kallos (left) at a rally for rent reform. Image credit: William Alatriste/NYC Council

    Freeze vote first of its kind in Board history, applies to one-year leases in rent-regulated units.  On June 29, 2015 the Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-2 to not increase rents on one-year leases, affecting 1.2 million tenants of New York City’s rent-regulated apartments.  The vote marked the first occasion where the Board decided to freeze rents. The Board’s vote also increased rents on two-year leases by 2 percent, a historically-low rate.  The new rents will take effect with leases begun or renewed on October 1, 2015 or later.

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    Tags : Council Member Ben Kallos, Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Mayor Bill de Blasio, NYC Rent Guidelines Board, rent regulation, Rent Stabilization Association
    Date:07/06/2015
    Category : Rent Guidelines Board
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