AG James sues landlords over rent-stabilized building violations

Two Brooklyn landlords are the first to face litigation under a rent stabilization compliance crackdown by Attorney General Letitia James, after New York State filed lawsuits alleging they failed to properly register regulated units, attempted illegal evictions and harassed tenants. The attorney general’s office brought the suits as part of a de facto rent stabilization compliance program, which seeks to enforce a 1974 law that categorizes buildings with five or fewer units built before that year to become stabilized if the building was altered to have six or more units. The program has prevented 26 evictions and returned 91 units […]

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