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10-Bill Package to Protect the Rights of Tenants Passes Assembly

February 4, 2009




Anyone who rents in New York City knows that the rent laws are broken and our City’s affordable housing stock is in crisis. Over the past decade we have watched as speculation in multi-family housing resulted in the harassment and eviction of families from their homes.

I’m proud to say that earlier this week, the Assembly acted to update and strengthen New York’s rent laws. For your information, these ten bills are listed below. The bill package is now headed to the Senate.

A.2005 (Rosenthal) – Repeals vacancy decontrol laws that allow landlords to deregulate apartments. The bill also re-regulates thousands of units that are renting for less than $5000/month.

A.1686 (Lopez) – Reduces the maximum amount a landlord can increase the rent on a vacated apartment from 20% to 10%.

A.860 (Bing) – Adjusts income decontrol thresholds to more accurately reclect present day realities and tie income decontrol thresholds to inflation in the NYC metropolitan area.

A.1687 (Lopez) – Require former Section 8 properties to be automatically subject to rent regulation.

A.1685 (Lopez) – Limit a landlord’s ability to recover an apartment for personal use to one unit per property.

A.1688 ( Lopez) – Repeals the Urstadt Law, allowing New York City to make its own rent laws.

A.857 (Bing) – Maintains the rents for tenants at their same levels when a building leaves the Mitchell-Lama program and enters rent stabilization.

A.1928 (O’Donnell) – Extends the length of time during which major capital improvement (MCI) expenses are recovered by landlords so that the costs to tenants are more spread out. Also, prohibits rent surcharges for MCIs after the costs of the improvement have already been recovered.

A.2002 (Silver) – Creates civil penalties for tenant harassment and raises penalties on landlords that violate DHCR housing codes.

A.465 (Jeffries) – Protects tenants with preferential rental agreements from exorbirant rent increases.

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Written by Micah · Filed Under Albany Report, Blogroll, Legislative Updates 

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