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HPD Hearing to Change Mitchell-Lama Rules - 3/14/23
HPD has proposed many changes to Mitchell-Lama rules.
The hearing will be on March 14, 2023 from 10 to 11 AM, and you can testify on line, by email, by regular mail, and by fax.
You can participate on line by computer or phone.
DHCR must determine "depreciability" for façade repair MCI
If rent stabilized tenants in your building are facing a Major Capital Improvement (MCI) rent increase because of façade repair, this State Supreme Court decision might help you.
The state law requires that to qualify as an MCI, work must "depreciable" under the federal Internal Revenue Code. The court ruled that façade repair is no exception - despite what the regulations say. So the state's Division of Housing and Community Renewal must first determine whether the work done would be depreciable under the IRC. Regular repair work is NOT depreciable. To be depreciable, the work must
- be performed for the first time
- create something entirely new, and
- be of significant scale (for example affecting at least 80% of the building).
The Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenant Association and its lawyers, Collins Dobkin & Miller, won this case - although it might be appealed. This is from the Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenant Association newsletter:
Tenants get money back— court agrees with TA challenges to 19 façade MCIs
The court issued a very favorable Order and Decision on the TA’s objections to DHCR’s granting of 19 individual Major Capital Improvement rent increases related to Local Law 11 façade work. As you know, we challenged all approved MCIs in a filing called an Article 78, which comes before the court.
We prevailed on the two key issues: failure to file in time and failure to consider depreciability as an IRS standard for work to qualify as an MCI.
The Design & Function of the 4 Rent Guidelines Boards
Right2Remain - sign the petition
Landlords shouldn’t be allowed to raise your rent just because they want more profit. The #Right2Remain would help tenants to fight back against landlord greed. Sign the petition to stop the rent hikes! https://right2remain.com/
Landlords create artificial shortage, then pressure state to rollback protections
The management of 50 West 97th Street refuses to offer for rent 9 vacant rent stabilized apartments. The management is just warehousing them. And that's just one building.
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The Upstate/Downstate Housing Alliance (Housing Justice for All), Met Council on Housing, Citizen Action of NY, and NYC Democratic Socialist...
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Read Michael McKee's authoritative explanation of the design and functions of the Rent Guidelines Boards in New York City, Nassau, Roc...
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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was chosen as the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York - and is therefore likely to be elected m...