A new development in the Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) will be of keen interest to certain New York residential property owners and landlords. For months, most evictions have been on hold against residential tenants with pending ERAP applications, even...
Residential Leases
NYC housing courts struggling to recover from COVID restrictions
After the long haul through the eviction moratorium and other pandemic-related restrictions, landlords and property owners are ready to get back on track with life as we knew it in the housing business. Unfortunately, this is not yet the case. Several moving parts...
New legislation makes certain hotel-apartment conversions more attractive
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation on June 7, taking effect immediately, that will ease red tape for hotel owners and developers considering the conversion of underutilized, sometimes vacant hotels into affordable residential units. The bill allots $200...
Seattle law letting tenants self-certify financial need unconstitutional
New York property owners will remember the important U.S. Supreme Court case that shut down enforcement of the provision of our pandemic eviction moratorium law, the COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2020 (CEEFPA), that allowed a tenant to...