To access a list of current and prior rent Evictions
guidelines, go to the website of the NYC Rent
Guidelines Board at www.nyc.gov/rgb. Generally, so long as a hotel occupant or
permanent tenant pays the legal rent, they can
Owners may be lawfully entitled to other remain in the housing accommodation. An owner
rent increases, such as Individual Apartment may not harass an occupant or permanent tenant
Improvements, building wide major capital by engaging in an intentional course of conduct
improvements (MCIs) and hardship increases. intended to make such occupant or permanent
tenant vacate the housing accommodation.
Services
Under the Real Property Actions and Proceedings
The customary hotel services required to be Law, a hotel occupant residing at the hotel for
provided include, but are not limited to, maid thirty days or more even though he has not
service and the provision and laundering of linen requested a lease and is not a permanent tenant,
at least once a week, use and upkeep of furniture, may only be evicted pursuant to an action or
and a lobby staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a proceeding instituted in the Civil Court. If such
week by at least one employee. an action is brought, the “occupant” will receive
notice of the action and of the right to answer and
It should be noted that this full range of hotel appear in court. Lockouts of such hotel occupants,
services may not necessarily be required to be or of permanent tenants, are strictly illegal.
provided in Class B Multiple Dwellings such
as rooming houses and some SRO hotels. The
services required to be provided in SRO hotels
and rooming houses would be those services
provided when such buildings first became
subject to the Rent Stabilization Law in June, 1981.