New York City Rent Control Case Study

New York’s Rent Control Program is the longest one in the country started at 1943. It was a controlled mechanism sponsored by the government to help keep the rent low and reasonable. New York City rent control sponsored by the state of New York and there was a national system as well. It was a way of keeping increases every year, as the rent went up, to the certain percentage per year. It meant that people who had middle income can afford living in the city, and it have been that way ever since. This program has two major impacts on the New York city’s urban fabric. It makes housing affordable and provides diversity in term of income, race, and age. Before rent control program we had another law called New York Adapted Emergency laws at 1920. In this program there was a committee to review the rents
New York Rent Control Program Arch 735 Pooya Amin Javaheri and provide a reasonable rate based on the apartment specification which was the first attempt in the country to put some control on the rentals and prevent unreasonable increase in rents. It was a successful program and other cities around the US began to follow New York and regulate
In a rent controlled apartment, once the tenants disappear unless they have family member rent control will disappear. The number of people who live on the rent control continually decreasing every year. Because those people from fifties, sixties, and seventies are dying. If they moved in when they were twenty, now they are seventy or more. So when they go, rent control would end for my apartment. The landlord will take the property and fix it up and he puts in a high income rental with a rate more than 4 or 5 times of the previous controlled rate. As a result, the new tenant’s level of income would be way more than the old one. While still there are low or