The City Council passed a bill Wednesday that enables tenants to report vacant apartments in their buildings to the city housing agency — with sponsors hoping to spur action on tens of thousands of empty units. Intro 195 allows tenants to report maintenance code issues to the Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) department via 311, […]
Rent Stabilization
Posted inHousing
How to Snoop Through Property Records Like a Reporter
In New York City, there are a lot of ways to find publicly available information about the buildings on your block — and even more reasons to want it. Maybe you need to find the name of a contractor who botched a repair, or your landlord’s real mailing address, or how many violations a building […]
Posted inHousing
Supreme Court Won’t Take Up Landlords’ Challenge to New York’s Rent Regulations
Property owners argued that 2019 reforms violated their rights and is “destroying” housing. Yet profits are still plentiful.
Posted inLandlords
NYC Awards $191 Million Tax Break to Landlord With 3,000 Housing Code Violations
The Bistricer family will receive a 40-year tax exemption in exchange for cleaning up the mess it has long been blamed for at Brooklyn’s beleaguered Flatbush Gardens.
Posted inRent Guidelines Board
Rent Board Approves 3% Hike for Stabilized Tenants
While the increase is at the lower end of the range the RGB previously had proposed, it’s larger than any hike from the de Blasio years.
Posted inDestabilized
City Housing Officials Call Apartment Vacancies a ‘Distraction’ Amid Demands for More Oversight
Measures to require inspections and registration of tens of thousands of empty units got pushback from the Adams administration at a City Council hearing.
Posted inHow to New York
How the Rent Guidelines Board Sets the Price on Your Next Lease
The nine-person board is about to take its preliminary vote, then hear rowdy input from the public. As the city’s affordability crisis worsens, the process is set to be as tense as ever in 2023.
Posted inLandlords, Manhattan, Rent Guidelines Board, Rent Stabilization, Tenants
East Village Tenants Say New Landlord Is Pushing Them Out
Long-time residents say they’re being hit with huge rent increases that have unsettled their lives and forced some of them to leave the building.
Posted inDestabilized
The Number of Rent-Stabilized Apartments Registered in Ridgewood Plummeted. ‘Substantial Rehabilitations’ Could Help Explain Why.
Residents are worried about de facto deregulation in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood — thanks to limited enforcement of the largely voluntary systems landlords use to register rent-stabilized apartments.
Posted inDestabilized
New Data Shows Where Rent-Stabilized Apartments Might Be Disappearing
Data from a housing nonprofit, obtained exclusively by THE CITY, shows where thousands of rent-stabilized units remain unaccounted for by the state.