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Viral TikTok videos are encouraging tenants to request their apartment rent histories and figure out whether their landlords are overcharging them.

Landlords now face a $500 per month charge.

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State agency making progress on tenant complaint fines, Comptroller audit finds New York State

Despite protests at a meeting of the Rent Guidelines Board, another significant rent increase is coming for New York’s rent-stabilized tenants.

Three years after a 2019 overhaul was supposed to stop landlords from removing most apartments from rent stabilization, thousands are left unaccounted for.

Manhattan prosecutors claim Joel Kohn, Michael Ambrosino, Alen Paknoush, Mendel Gold, Ioan Sita, Gheorghe Sita, and their businesses have abused an affordable housing tax incentive program since 2011.

New York City first enacted a “rent stabilization” system in 1969 to protect renters from dramatic increases in their rent and allow renters to renew their... 03.10.2022, Sputnik International

Without an avenue to resolve allegations of overcharging, tenants can find themselves unfairly priced out of their homes.

(Albany, NY) Today, Senator Brian Kavanagh, Chair of the Senate Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development announced details of the New York State Adopted Budget, which would provide $5.5 billion in capital investments and $2.5 billion in other expenditures for housing and related services, for a total of $8 billion benefitting renters, homeowners, and homeless New Yorkers.