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Rent Stabilization

  1. unaffordable housing
    New York Landlords Strike Out at the Supreme Court, AgainRent-stabilized tenants will continue to enjoy their automatic lease renewals.
  2. housing
    The Landlords Are MergingTwo organizations representing owners of rent-stabilized buildings across the city may be teaming up because one of them is going broke.
  3. housing
    Rent Stabilization Isn’t Going to the Supreme Court This TimeThe justices declined to hear a case against rent regulation brought by New York landlord groups. But there will be others.
  4. street fights
    How to Fake-Own the New Yorker HotelA fraudster got himself a rent-stabilized lease at the Hell’s Kitchen landmark. Then he tried to take it over.
  5. the rent is too damn high
    Zombie Renovations Are ComingLandlords are claiming that work completed decades ago is grounds to take a building out of rent regulation. What’s a tenant supposed to do?
  6. the rent is too damn high
    Are the Landlords Bluffing?They say thousands of rent stabilized apartments are too cheap and too far gone to rent. You’ll just have to take their word for it.
  7. housing
    A Sale and a Suicide on East 12th StreetAfter a private-equity firm bought an East Village apartment complex, one of the tenants jumped. Neighbors say he was right to be paranoid.
  8. worst landlords
    Tenants of New York’s Worst Landlords Already Knew Signature Bank Would FailThe bank’s model incentivized eviction and neglect. Something had to give.
  9. bad landlords
    The Crumbling Building Where No One Claims to Be the LandlordA real-estate deal that went bad has left rent-stabilized tenants in legal limbo.
  10. landlords and tenants
    ‘If You Can’t Exclude Someone, Do You Even Own It?’New York City’s landlords say they’re fighting for life, liberty, and the pursuit of eviction.
  11. upstate
    Tenants in Kingston Just Gave Themselves a Rent ReductionAnd landlords are suing.
  12. upstate
    Kingston Becomes the First Upstate City to Adopt Rent ControlThe move will probably set the stage for other cities upstate to follow suit.