Rent Stabilization—Court Rejects Housing Industry’s Challenge to DHCR’s Adoption of the 2014 Amendments to the Rent Stabilization Code, Which, Inter Alia, Codified a Tenant Protection Unit and Set Forth Exceptions to the Four-Year Statute of Limitations for Reviewing Rent Records
Real estate industry plaintiffs filed an action, challenging the NYS Department of Housing and Community Renewal’s (DHCR’s) adoption of 2014 amendments as being unconstitutional. The plaintiffs sought to “eliminate” a Tenant Protection Unit (TPU) and strike the amendments “in their entireties.” The plaintiffs requested, inter alia, “a permanent injunction barring DHCR from enforcing the…amendments and prohibiting TPU from conducting further investigations or issuing further determinations.” The plaintiffs based their claims “on the due process clause of the New York State Constitution and the Separation of Powers Doctrine.”
