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Affordable housing advocates hail New York state\u2019s Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 as a life raft for renters in more than 1 million apartments in New York City alone. Other observers, however, regard it as a minefield that will eliminate incentives for building upkeep, remove housing stock from the market, and drive away landlords and investors.<\/p>\n

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A key provision of the law empowers a board to tie rent increases to an inflation-indexed percentage. Owners previously could raise rents 20% when stabilized units were vacated, with deregulation allowed when rent level or resident income thresholds were reached. Another section limits rent increases to cover only $15,000 of improvements over a 15-year period, regardless of actual costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York State has taken a historic step towards a fairer housing system by reforming the rent loopholes that allowed landlords and property owners to harass and displace tenants across the State. By passing this legislation, we are finally delivering equity and justice to our clients and all low-income New Yorkers,\u201d the Legal Aid Society said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The law] makes it likely that no new apartment buildings will rise. It guarantees that existing ones will decay. It will make repairs and upgrades prohibitively expensive for landlords who must eke out puny profits from properties that require major reinvestment, but where they can\u2019t charge enough rent to pay for it,\u201d countered New York Post<\/em> editorial writer Steve Cuozzo.<\/p>\n

In July, a month after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law, a coalition of trade associations and building owners filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the legislation is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n

A new Yardi Matrix<\/a> bulletin weighs in on the new law. \u201cMarket players say that the values of properties with stabilized units dropped anywhere between 20-40 percent overnight. Owners with highly leveraged properties or those that are thinly capitalized will feel the most pain, and those that suddenly find themselves underwater might decide to hand over the keys to banks,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n

The bulletin acknowledges that the capital improvement limit was partly a response to property owners who applied rent increases while improving apartments less than they claimed. However, \u201cif landlords can\u2019t recoup capital spent on improvements, they either won\u2019t make [them] or will do it with lesser quality materials.\u201d And if rents don\u2019t keep pace with rising expenses for utilities, wages, property taxes and capital improvements, \u201cit\u2019s hard to imagine how many companies want to own a property with deteriorating net income, unless they can buy it for a distressed price.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more in the full Yardi Matrix bulletin, \u201cNew York Rent Control: Paved With Good Intentions.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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