FHEPS/CityFHEPS
Administered by NYC social services agencies (Department of Social Services, Department of Homelessness Services, Human Resources Administration) and available for households facing homelessness and shelter entry.
Administered by NYC social services agencies (Department of Social Services, Department of Homelessness Services, Human Resources Administration) and available for households facing homelessness and shelter entry.
Affordable housing can refer to: Income restricted Housing Housing Regulated because of its funding stream Housing available to households making a certain % Area Median Income Housing accessed through the…
A rent-burdened household spends more than 30% of their income on rent.
The CONH Pilot Program is intended to disincentivize tenant harassment and protect affordable housing by requiring landlords who want to make significant renovations in their buildings get a CONH from…
Harassment is any act or omission by or on behalf of an owner that causes or is intended to cause a tenant to surrender or waive any rights in relation…
In 1978, the Tenant Interim Lease Program was created to assist organized Tenant Associations in City-owned buildings to develop economically self-sufficient low-income cooperatives where tenants have the opportunity to purchase…
A landlord can file a nonpayment case to claim a tenant owes rent and ask the court to order the tenant to pay rent. If the tenant doesn't pay, they…
When owners add new installations (for example, a new boiler) to a building subject to the rent stabilization or rent control laws, they may be permitted to increase the building’s…
The IAI provision allowed a landlord to collect a significant, permanent rent increase on a vacant rent-regulated apartment in return for making physical improvements to that apartment, which led to…
Passed in June 2019, HSTPA removed the vacancy bonus and placed new limitations on major capital improvements to slow the acceleration of rent increases in rent stabilized housing.