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History
- Referred to housing, construction and community development
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.682
- Reported
- Committed to housing
- Ordered to third reading cal.145
- Returned to assembly
- Died in senate
- Referred to housing, construction and community development
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
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- Advanced to third reading cal.21
- Reported
- Referred to housing
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Limits the amount of rent increase after the vacancy of a housing accommodation
In Senate Committee · Housing, Construction And Community Development · Sponsor José M. Serrano
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:A1686 REVISED 4/7/10
Title of bill
An act to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy- four, in relation to limiting rent increase after vacancy of a housing accommodation
Purpose or general idea of bill
The purpose of this bill is to expand tenant protections by reducing the percentage by which rent may be increased upon vacancy.
Summary of specific provisions
This bill would decrease from twenty percent to ten percent the amount a landlord could increase rent upon vacancy and also prohibit a landlord from taking more than one increase in any one calendar year.
Effects of present law which this bill would alter
This bill would amend paragraph 5-a of subdivision c of section 26-511 of the adminis- trative code of the city of New York, and subdivision (a-1) of section 10 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four.
Justification
There continues to be an ongoing housing emergency in many areas of New York State, and especially in New York City. According to the Rent Guidelines Hoard report "Rousing NYC: Rents, Markets and Trends 2009", the percentage of vacant available rentals has fallen in the past decade, from 3.19% in 1999, to 3.09% in 2005, to 2.88% in 2008. Limiting the amount by which rent may be increased upon vacancy will help keep units in the rent regulation system and thus preserve these units in the affordable housing stock.
Prior legislative history
2009: A.1686 Passed Assembly; 2007/2008: A.2894 Passed Assembly; 2006: A.4213 Ordered to 3rd Reading; 2005: A.4213 Passed Assembly; 2004: A.10846 Passed Assembly,
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any tenant in possession at or after the time it takes effect, regardless of whether the landlord's application for an order, refusal to renew a lease or refusal to extend or renew a tenancy took place before this act shall have taken effect.
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