Landlord representatives such as CHIP and RSA are suing New York over rent control laws. They are arguing that the law is an unconstitutional violation of the fifth amendment, it forces landlords to continue to have underpaying and non-paying tenants. Another argument includes the economic impact...
The State of California has a moratorium put in place until the end of September. It seems as though they will not be voting to extend it. They say there is no “political appetite” to extend this matter. Like New York there is a great amount of protection put in place to protect renters. The emer...
For those of you up to date on our posts, we mentioned that the State Legislature was going to reconvene on Wednesday, September 1st, in Albany to pass a new eviction moratorium. Although the bill may be further amended before passing, CEEFPA and CEPOSBA protections are extended through January 1...
Yesterday on CHIPs daily update, it suggests that the State Legislature is going to reconvene on Wednesday to pass a new eviction moratorium. This new law would last until January 15, 2022. It would also comply with the Supreme Court ruling that shut down the last moratorium. This moratorium woul...
It is no surprise that landlords are facing homelessness due to not receiving rent payment. Brandi LaCasse is a prime example of this. She owns three properties in upstate New York and is owed more than $23,000. Due to not being able to evict her tenants because of the eviction moratorium, LaCass...
Kathy Hochul is now the 57th Governor of New York. Yesterday she had her swearing in ceremony and her inaugural address. She talks about how she intends to combate covid, bring kids and staff back safely to schools and the distribution of the ERAP money. Getting a group of people together to make...
Today is Gov. Andrew Cuomo's last day in office. According to CHIP's new update Kathy Hochul might make some big changes to resolve the housing issues as soon as she is sworn in. Last week she issued a statement saying that she would work with the State Legislature to strengthen eviction protecti...
In yesterday's hearing OTDA said that 40,000 applications are pending on landlords to do their parts. OTDA is trying to work through the process and help connect those landlords to their renters application. Commissioner Hein also stated that the 196,000 tenants that have applied for the program ...
New York City's new mandatory vaccination policy is now in effect. What this means is that now in order to gain access to restaurants, gyms, bars, etc. you must show proof of vaccination. The city will begin to give out fines for those who do not want to comply starting September 13, 2021. Stay s...
According to CHIP's recent update on the DRP 217 that was issued yesterday by The Office of Court Administration, in order for a landlord to proceed on evicting a tenant they must first comply with the two new requirements. The owner must first make a motion for the court to issue a new warrant. ...
According to the Community Housing Improvement Program, OCA has issued two new orders in response to the Supreme Court's decision from last week. The first order states that all property owners have to file a “Petitioner Notice of Pending or Completed Rental Assistance Application” but this only ...
The US Supreme Court has struck down New York's eviction law. CEEFPA allowed renters to self-certify that they suffered hardship during the pandemic. This ruling will allow housing court cases to proceed even if a hardship was filed, this should also take away any pre-petition requirements but fu...
Governor Andrew Cuomo surprised many when he announced on August 10th that he would be resigning in 14 days. According to CHIP this eliminates many concerns. One of them being, If the State Legislature assembled to vote for Cuomo's impeachment, then they could have potentially announced the exten...
According to CHIPS recent update the New York Assembly held a hearing today at 10 a.m. to once again discuss the issues with the CERAP program. Although some funds have been released, the process has been slow and these hearings are expected to put extra pressure on the state government to get fu...
According to CHIP's update yesterday, the Biden administration has released a new eviction moratorium, which will be effective through October 3, 2021. This moratorium is said to be a modified version of what we have seen issued by the CDC. This will only apply to specific counties where the numb...
The latest update on CHIP about the federal eviction moratorium suggests that it will end despite the efforts that the democratic party had in trying to extend the moratorium. This moratorium implemented by the CDC only impacted one third of the states due to the fact that most states, such as Ne...
Chip along with a few others joined State Senators Brian Kavanagh and Roxanne Persaud to talk about the failures of CERAP and OTDA. Their inability to fix the technical issues with the application program and their lack of agility of sending out the funds are just two of the reasons that has kept...
Although document submissions for CERAP have been relaxed and this should make it easier for approval, money still has not been released. According to the latest update on chip, despite all the promises from Governor Cuomo to better improve CERAP no substantive change has been made. Cuomo pledged...
Despite the various glitches with the system since it's launch, the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) says that COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (CERAP) payments are on their way to landlords (at least those who have priority status by filing within t...
The NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) has released a report that shows how many renters have applied for the COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program (CERAP) through June 29. More than 90,000 renters in New York City applied, and roughly 28,000 across the rest of the st...
Unsurprisingly, Cuomo signed an extension of the COVID Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act (CEEFPA), extending the eviction moratorium through August of 2021. Any residential or commercial tenant who wants to avoid eviction simply has to declare hardship due to COVID-19 and their case is stayed without any proof or further inquiry...
There is currently $800 million up for grabs for commercial tenants with fewer than 100 employees who have been affected by the pandemic...
The New York State Legislature has largely finalized the budget, which proposes to establish a COVID-19 rental assistance program and would allocate approximately $2.4 billion in federal funds for the program. The best part of the program is that it would allow the application to be initiated by the landlord...
On Tuesday, March 11, 2021, Governor Cuomo signed the COVID-19 Emergency Protect Our Small Businesses Act, which prohibits evictions on commercial non-payment cases if the tenant has fewer than 50 employees ...
It's a question that I find myself fielding from clients above all others nowadays. The short answer: Who knows.
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