https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/11\/13\/a-new-lawsuit-says-new-yorks-rent-law-is-forcing-landlords-to-keep-apartments-empty<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“On one of their units, the Lulgjurajs are able to charge monthly market-rate rents of $2,600. For an identical unit that became vacant in 2019 after a long-term tenancy, they can only charge $710 per month.<\/p>\n
The costs of legally mandated repairs to that unit\u2014which would include replacing the kitchen and bathroom, performing lead abatement, and leveling the floors\u2014exceed $100,000. Yet the 2019 law permits them to reclaim less than half of these costs, let alone raise rents to something approximating market rates.<\/p>\n
Without the ability to recover the costs of legally mandated repairs, the unit currently sits empty.<\/p>\n
In addition to alleging a taking, the property owners’ lawsuit also argues that the wildly different rents allowed on units, dependent solely on how old the unit is and when it became vacant, is arbitrary and irrational.”<\/p>\n
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