Consequently, the majority upheld the disputed provisions of the Housing Regulation and the Standards as validly enacted public health measures.In a spirited dissent, Mr. Justice Berger agreed that the impugned provisions are validly enacted public health measures, but disagreed that they can be enforced in the context of
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One thing that remains to be seen is how local regulators will respond, especially in cities like New York where it's illegal to
rent out one's full
unit in an
apartment building on Airbnb for less than 30 days.
«In a market where brokers are very active and charging a fee, landlords will price their
units to a point where they're sometimes equivalent to
renting an
apartment with a broker fee.»
I'm totally slowing my pace to RE exposure now as
rents and values have had such an incredible run and the supply is seeing new records with 100s of thousands of new
apartment units hitting the market.
With 20,000 new condo
apartments coming in each of the next two years and mortgage rates rising, be very careful about grabbing a pre-sale
unit — especially to
rent.
Last year, housing advocacy groups found that all 20
units in a
rent - controlled Columbia Heights
apartment were advertised on short - term rental sites.
If your new home has any detached living
units like a basement
apartment, you can also propose to find a tenant and add the estimated
rent as part of your income in the application.
She's taking the next step and negotiating to buy an 18 -
unit apartment building and
rent units at subsidized rates.
The fighters can live
rent - free in a 20 -
unit apartment building.
It would also make the
rent level $ 2100 for
apartments with under 50
units, and $ 2400 for places with more than 50
units.
The latest disclosure, following a Freedom of Information request, is that taxpayers paid more than # 1,600 for a new shower
unit for his grace - and - favour
apartment, # 420 on kitchen chairs and # 95 on fixing the net curtains in the flat where his family's nanny lives
rent - free.
In a rare victory for landlords, the New York Court of Appeals ruled they had acted properly in pushing up
rents when they converted thousands of regulated
apartments to market - rate
units.
«The trendy replacement for hotels and hostels in effect removes housing
units from the overall supply —
units that might otherwise be available to
rent to New Yorkers looking to
rent an
apartment,» it states.
And landlords will now only be able to increase
rent for individual
apartment improvements one sixtieth, versus one fourtieth, the cost of the improvement, though only in buildings with 36 or more
units, something landlords claim will worsen housing conditions for tenants.
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.
She applauded the mayor's two years of
rent freezes for tenants in regulated
apartments and his recent update to his plan to create or preserve 200,000 affordable housing
units by 2024 to cover more low - income individuals, but wants the city to go farther.
They called for the elimination of a loophole that lets landlords boost
rent by 20 percent when tenants vacate a
rent - stabilized
apartment, as well as a rule that removes
units from
rent regulations once the
rent gets high enough, allowing
units to go to market - rate prices.
The company supports a bill from Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol and state Sen. John Bonacic that would let
apartment residents
rent their
units out for fewer than 30 days, while the hotel industry is backing an opposing bill that would require people advertising
apartments on home - rental platforms to include location details.
It is illegal in New York to
rent empty
apartments in buildings with more than three
units for fewer than 30 days, a law that has proven challenging for Airbnb.
For
apartments in the city's so - called cluster site program, the city pays on average $ 3,027 per
unit per month, which covers social services provided to occupants by nonprofit organizations and the
rent paid to the landlord.
Airbnb, for its part, has advanced a bill with Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol that would ease the state occupancy law to allow for the
renting of
apartments for a less than a month so long as the host registers the
unit with the state.
Democrats in the state Assembly had mounted a strong push to tie approval for a new tax abatement to rules that would make it harder for New York landlords to turn
rent - regulated
apartments into free - market
units.
But when mayor and speaker met at the Ebbets Field
Apartments, a 1,500 -
unit rent - stabilized complex in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Mr. Heastie seemed ready to assume the role of tenant - rights champion.
Landlords of
rent - regulated buildings, however, rely on raising rent 20 percent in vacant units to recoup the losses they have acquired by subsidizing other apartments for years without adequate rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated apartme
rent - regulated buildings, however, rely on raising
rent 20 percent in vacant units to recoup the losses they have acquired by subsidizing other apartments for years without adequate rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated apartme
rent 20 percent in vacant
units to recoup the losses they have acquired by subsidizing other
apartments for years without adequate
rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated apartme
rent increases, according to Frank Ricci, director of government affairs for the
Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of rent - regulated apartme
Rent Stabilization Association, which represents landlords of
rent - regulated apartme
rent - regulated
apartments.
Owning and
renting out a building is a BUSINESS — be it a 4
unit apartment building, an
apartment complex, a shopping mall or the Time - Warner Center in Manhattan.
Councilman Dan Garodnick, who represents parts of Manhattan and also lives in a
rent - regulated
apartment, said his district includes many
rent stabilized
units, which house some of his relatives and friends.
Residents of the Marine Drive
Apartments face massive
rent increases under new rates for
units in the Waterfront facility.
Stewart - Cousins is the main sponsor of legislation that would repeal a provision allowing landlords to deregulate
apartment units if they remain vacant or if
rent surpasses $ 2,500 a month, according to the newspaper.
Among the proposals in her «
Rent Justice for All» program are ending the preferential rent loophole, by which landlords can offer an apartment for less than the legal regulated rent but can revoke this privilege whenever the lease is renewed; expanding rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal age
Rent Justice for All» program are ending the preferential
rent loophole, by which landlords can offer an apartment for less than the legal regulated rent but can revoke this privilege whenever the lease is renewed; expanding rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal age
rent loophole, by which landlords can offer an
apartment for less than the legal regulated
rent but can revoke this privilege whenever the lease is renewed; expanding rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal age
rent but can revoke this privilege whenever the lease is renewed; expanding
rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal age
rent stabilization statewide to buildings with six or more
units, which is currently the law in New York City; and increasing funding to the state's Homes and Community Renewal agency.
Under the mayor's plans developers, for instance, can set aside 30 percent of its
units to middle - income families, which means those earning roughly $ 110,000 a year, or paying about $ 2,700 a month in
rent for a 2 - bedroom
apartment.
He met with residents and tenant leaders of Ebbets Field
Apartments, a
rent - stabilized complex of 1,500
units in Crown Heights.
«What we need to do is terminate vacancy deregulation,» Lasher said of the ability of landlords to raise
rents and deregulate
apartments when
units become vacant.
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 regulat
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 regulat
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 regulat
rent regulation.
One major reason
apartments exit the
rent regulation system is because they are subject to something called «vacancy decontrol,» which allows landlords to deregulate a
unit when a tenant leaves and the
rent reaches $ 2,500 a month, up from $ 2,000 a month in 2011.
BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights landlord who left tenants without heat in the winter and exposed kids as young as 6 to toxic amounts of lead dust to get residents out of his 14 -
unit apartment building so he could charge more is proof the city's
rent laws need to be strengthened, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.
DiNapoli blamed the drop — less than 1 percent of all
rent - regulated
apartments — largely on late - 1990s measures that allow landlords to deregulate
units after they go vacant or when the monthly
rents on the
units surpass $ 2,000.
Among those alleged «loopholes» are vacancy decontrol — which lets landlords to remove a
unit from the
rent stabilization program if the tenant dies or relocates — major capital improvement rules, which allows for permanent
rent increases to pay for renovations and the preferential
rent system, which permits landlords to charge a tenant less than the legally regulated rate for an
apartment.
When asked whether he'd work to end vacancy decontrol (for
apartments that
rent for $ 2,000 or more), State Senator Pedro Espada said yes but he added that vacancy decontrol «will affect very few
units in our district.»
The $ 3.338 million allows local development organizations to rehabilitate
units while maintaining low
rents for longtime locals — many of whom make between $ 25,000 to $ 45,000 a year, according to Ismene Speliotis, executive director of the Mutual Housing Association of New York, which owns and manages 526 affordable
apartment in neighborhoods including Crown Heights, Bushwick, Brownsville and East New York.
The Community Service Society estimated the number of
rent - regulated
units in each legislative district by allocating the
rent - regulated
apartments from the New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey's sub-borough areas into legislative districts in proportion with the 2010 local census tract population.
In another
unit, a senior couple learned that because their
apartment will be re-regulated, they are now eligible to apply for the Senior Citizen
Rent Increase Exemption program.
State law bars
apartment owners and lease - holders from
renting units for fewer than 30 days, unless the owner is present.
While the agreements slightly raised the thresholds for removing an
apartment from the
rent stabilization program and for passing along the costs of building improvements to tenants, it did not eliminate a landlord's power to yank a
unit out of
rent control once it becomes unoccupied, a reform Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo both called for.
Hawkins was joined by former residents at the site of the former 400 -
unit Kennedy Square low - income public housing on S. Crouse Ave.. The site is now a staging area for parking, equipment, and materials for construction workers who were busy as Hawkins spoke building upscale
apartments across E. Fayette St. for the Syracuse University community with
rents ranging from $ 1,400 to $ 2,500 a month.
Those of us who are still living there, my
apartment has been destroyed,» said Alicia Blackwell, who has lived in her
rent - controlled
unit on 128th Street in Harlem for 48 years, adding that her landlord has persisted in taking her to court despite her health conditions.
Its eight
apartments are counted toward Mr. de Blasio's goal of preserving or creating 200,000
units of housing in which
rents are regulated by 2024.
Speaking to the Observer, Mr. Kadushin contested Mr. Stringer's assertion that the vacancy situation has deteriorated under the de Blasio administration, asserting NYCHA was
renting out
apartments faster than it had in years, having the number of available vacant
units in half since 2014.