1996 DHCR Fact Sheets

NYS Division of Housing and Community Renewal

DHCR 1996 Fact Sheets are available as online text and also in downloadable Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Important:

DHCR "updated" their Fact Sheets in 1996. Although we have not had the opportunity to scrutinize these updates too closely, we've seen the agency incorporating many of its new pro-landlord (and illegal) policies. For example, the "new" fact sheets indicate tenants must contact their landlord before making a service complaint. There is no requirement that tenants must do this; many tenants are afraid to do this and DHCR knows their new policy helps landlord intimidation tactics. As another example, DHCR is now saying in these new Fact Sheets that tenants must request a rent reduction. This is a direct violation of the Hyde Park vs. DHCR Court of Appeals decision. Tenants must be very careful when reading these new updated fact sheets. Tenants can always appeal irrational DHCR decisions through Petitions for Administrative Review (PARs) and beyond that through judicial appeals.

The old Pre-1996 Fact Sheets are still available online so you may make comparisons. We suggest you study the Rent Stabilization Law and Rent Stabilization Code. It appears DHCR hasn't looked at either lately.

The new DHCR Fact Sheets are available as online text and also in downloadable Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

The new set of DHCR Fact Sheets also contain eight additional Fact Sheets affecting ETPA tenants -- mostly in Westchester, Nassau and Rockland Counties. See below.

TenantNet makes no representation the enclosed material is current or will be applied as written. The reader is advised that DHCR often fails to properly apply, interpret or enforce housing laws and that various sections of the rent laws have changed since these Fact Sheets were originally issued. Since housing laws are complex and often contradictory, it is recommended the reader obtain competent legal advice from a tenant attorney or counseling from a tenant association or community group.

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