New York Rent Laws
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The City Rent and Rehabilitation Law [CRRL]
§ 26-401. Declaration and findings.
a. The council hereby finds that a serious public emergency
continues to exist in the housing of a considerable number
of persons in the city, which emergency was created by war,
the effects of war and the aftermath of hostilities; that
such emergency necessitated the intervention of federal,
state and local government in order to prevent speculative,
unwarranted and abnormal increases in rents; that there
continues to exist an acute shortage of dwellings; that
unless residential rents and evictions continue to be
regulated and controlled, disruptive practices and abnormal
conditions will produce serious threats to the public
health, safety and general welfare; that to prevent such
perils to health, safety and welfare, preventive action
through enactment of local legislation by the council
continues to be imperative; that such action, as a temporary
measure to be effective until it is determined by the
council that such emergency no longer exists, is necessary
in order to prevent exactions of unjust, unreasonable and
oppressive rents and rental agreements and to forestall
profiteering, speculation and other disruptive practices
tending to produce threats to the public health that the
transition from regulation to a normal market of free
bargaining between landlord and tenant, while still the
objective of state and city policy, must be administered
with due regard for such emergency; that in order to prevent
uncertainty, hardship and dislocation, the provisions of
this chapter are declared to be necessary and designed to
protect the public health, safety and general welfare.
b. The council further declares that it is city policy to
utilize the powers conferred by this chapter, in a manner
consistent with the purposes and provisions thereof, to
encourage and promote the improvement and rehabilitation of
the housing accommodations subject to control hereunder, for
the purpose of protecting the public health, safety and
general welfare.
Added by Laws 1985, Ch. 907, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1986.
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