Owners of buildings with vacate orders or major safety problems will have five days to answer the complaints in court.
Yesterday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a new housing court fast track for tenants in unsafe apartments. It will require qualifying landlords to appear in court within five days of the city or a tenant filing a housing complaint.
Mamdani’s fast track applies to landlords who the city has filed “housing part” cases against. Tenants, or the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, file these cases against owners of buildings with vacate orders or major problems, such as elevator outages or heat and hot water failures, to force repairs when landlords do not respond to tenant requests or other methods of city enforcement, David Brand writes for Gothamist.
“[The fast track] comes as heating failures and elevator outages continue to rise, and as tenants report a growing number of problems to the city’s housing agency, annual statistics show. Tenant advocates blame the increasing problems on negligent landlords and lengthy delays in enforcement, while owner groups counter that rules capping rent increases in stabilized apartments leave many landlords with little money to address mounting repairs and maintenance,” Brand writes.
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