Rent Stabilization

Second Department affirms DHCR’s use of a prior 2014 rent overcharge order to calculate base date rent in a 2017 rent stabilization complaint, applying deferential Article 78 rational basis review.

The Appellate Division, Second Department affirms annulment of a DHCR Deputy Commissioner determination that improperly declared a rent-stabilized Brooklyn apartment deregulated through high-rent vacancy, and upholds freezing the legal rent at $1,266 due to the owner’s failure to file annual rent registration statements since 2007.