Is Your Apartment Rent Stabilized?

Rent stabilized tenants receive remarkable benefits compared to other rental tenants. The two biggest benefits are that your rent can only go up by a certain percentage every one or two years, and you are guaranteed perpetual renewal of your lease while the rent stabilization law is in existence (in contrast, regular tenants have their tenancies terminated at the end of their leases).

In general, according to the Rent Guidelines Board, stabilized BUILDINGS

• Contain 6 or more units;

• Were built before 1974;

• Are not co-ops or condos.

All landlords are required to register their rent stabilized buildings with Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR). Therefore, if your building is listed below, your building is registered as rent stabilized. (NOTE: it is possible that your building should be rent stabilized, but the landlord failed to register it. If that is the case, it would not appear in the listings.)

List of Rent Stabilized Buildings(Rent Guidelines Board)

Manhattan

Brooklyn

Bronx

Queens

Staten Island