Rent Adjustment Petitions

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Rent Adjustment Petitions

The CSFRA requires the City provide landlords and tenants of rent stabilized units a way to request upward or downward adjustments of rent through a petition process. Landlords and tenants requesting an adjustment in rent do so by filing petitions with the City and entering into a formal process. This process includes filing of forms and documentation, pre-hearing meetings, pre-hearing settlement conferences (if requested), hearings overseen and adjudicated by a Hearing Officer and the issuing of a formal decision by the same Hearing Officer. The process also allows parties to the petition to file appeals with the RHC should they dispute the outcome of the decision.

Types of Petitions

Petitions vary greatly in type, complexity, number of affected parties, situations and circumstances. To learn more about each type of petition, click the landlord or tenant-initiated petition button below.

Landlord Initiated Petitions

Maintenance of Net Operating Income (MNOI) Petitions
Specified Capital Improvement Petitions
Exemption Status Petitions

Tenant Initiated Petitions

Unlawful Rent Petitions
Failure to Maintain Habitable Premise and/or Reduction in Housing Services Petitions
Tenant Hardship Petitions
New or Additional Housing Services Petitions
Exemption Status Petitions

CSFRA Petitions Received by the Rent Stabilization Division from November 2017 through November 2022

Petitions Filed through Nov. 2022