Sentences with phrase «regulation than the apartment»

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They «included the creation of a Tenant Protection Unit that protects rents from unscrupulous landlords and returned more than 37,000 unlawfully deregulated apartments to rent regulation.

The Tenant Protection Unit has returned more than 41,000 New York City apartments to rent regulation.

From 1994 to the present day, more than 238,000 apartments were removed from the rent regulation system, leaving middle class New Yorkers with fewer affordable housing options.

During the last four years, the TPU has successfully returned 50,000 improperly deregulated apartments in NYC to rent regulation and restored more than $ 2.25 million in overcharged rent to tenants.

Under rent regulation, the maximum rent for an apartment can increase no more than a certain percent every year, based on inflation, improvements to the building or apartment, as well as other costs.

The House NY initiative works in tandem with the HCR Office of Rent Administration's vigorous efforts to protect more than two million rent - regulated tenants, and HCR's Tenant Protection Unit which proactively audits and investigates landlord wrongdoing and has returned more than 40,000 New York City apartments to rent regulation.

Since inception, the TPU has returned more than 40,000 apartments that had been illegally deregulated to rent regulation.

Rent regulations, which control how much landlords can charge for more than 1 million rent stabilized city apartments, will be extended for four years, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a press conference with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan.

The rent regulation bill appears to be more favorable to landlords than to tenant activists because it makes no changes to the process of vacancy decontrol, by which apartments are unregulated when their monthly rent crosses a certain threshold.

More than 500 NYC residents gathered together on Tuesday, December 9th at the New York Society for Ethical Culture to demand an end to vacancy decontrol, a practice by which landlords can take a vacant apartment out of rent regulation when the rent reaches $ 2,000.

Mr. Cuomo, along with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, announced yesterday a framework agreement to extend rent regulations on more than 1 million apartment for four years.

Changes in the rent regulation laws have resulted in what some estimate to be more than 100,000 rent stabilized apartments in New York City becoming «decontrolled» â $ «the rents hiked up to whatever the landlord wants to charge.

«The most important thing to say to Albany is «this ballgame ain't over yet,»» he said, stressing that talks about the rent regulations affecting more than 1 million apartments and about the 421a abatement.

These «studio and one - bedroom apartments» will be no bigger than 275 to 300 sq ft.. These tiny living spaces are smaller than currently allowed by building regulations, according to a statement by Bloomberg's office; however the zoning regulations will be waived in over to construct the first of many compact pack «em and stack «em housing model in the city - owned area of Kips Bay.

But in the end, the real estate industry has been able to win some reductions in rent regulations in the State Legislature and allow for the deregulation of apartments for well more than a decade.