Rent Stabilization/Control

Office of Rent Administration

This year all Annual Rent Registrations and most Maximum Base Rent applications must be submitted through the Owner Rent Regulation Applications system. If you previously used Annual Rent Registration Online (ARRO), your User ID will not change. To request access to the Owner Rent Regulation Application system, email PSU@nyshcr.org and include your full name, company name (if applicable), mailing address and phone number. A User ID will be emailed to you.
Rent regulated tenants who have been displaced from their apartments due to Hurricane Sandy and/or the existence of conditions that require emergency repair and who want to preserve their right to reoccupy the apartment can file the new online form Application for Decreased Services - Individual Apartment Emergency Conditions or Form RA-81 - Application for a Rent Reduction Based Upon Decreased Service(s) - Individual Apartment.

For additional information, please review these Questions and Answers.

In April, issued 60 Rent Overcharge Orders establishing legal rents and directing refunds in excess of $63,000, 90 Decrease in Services Orders directing that repairs be made and rents lowered until such time that repairs are made and 84 Major Capital Improvement Orders for items valued in excess of $8,100,000.
Owners of buildings with apartments subject to Rent Control successfully filed online over 4,300 Fuel Cost Reports and 1,100 Maximum Base Rent Applications in 2013.
Rent Stabilized Apartments - Increases for Vacancy and Renewal Leases
October 1, 2012 - September 30, 2013