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  2. New York City Department of Housing Preservation and ...

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    Website. www .nyc .gov /hpd. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development ( HPD) is the department of the government of New York City [1] responsible for developing and maintaining the city's stock of affordable housing. Its regulations are compiled in title 28 of the New York City Rules. The Department is headed by a Commissioner ...

  3. New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, started keeping a permanent online database of housing and maintenance code violations in November 2013. From that month through January 2016, HPD issued more than 10,000 ...

  4. Landlord on 'Worst' List Faces Jail for 30 Housing Code ... - AOL

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    That's what happened to a landlord in Richmond, Va., who racked up more than 180 property maintenance violations and $70,000 in fines. Oliver C. Lawrence had to spend 40 days living in one of his ...

  5. Lead Paint Violations In New York City Neighborhoods

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    The data represents instances where HPD officials sent landlords a "notice of violation" between Nov. 18, 2013, and Jan. 1, 2016, requiring them to correct a lead paint hazard. The status of violations presented on this map may have changed since it was published. The data excludes public housing, units managed by The New York City Housing ...

  6. 421-a tax exemption - Wikipedia

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    421-a tax exemption. The 421-a tax exemption is a property tax exemption in the U.S. state of New York that is given to real-estate developers for building new multifamily residential housing buildings in New York City. As currently written, the program also focuses on promoting affordable housing in the most densely populated areas of New York ...

  7. Urban Homesteading Assistance Board - Wikipedia

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    Squatting inthe United States. The Urban Homesteading Assistance Board ( UHAB ), formed in 1974, is a city-wide non-profit housing and tenant advocacy group in New York City. [3] [4] : 253, 258, 261–264 [5] UHAB was originally sponsored by the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. [6] In the late 1970s, they began to contract with the NYC ...

  8. Article 7A (New York City housing code) - Wikipedia

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    Article 7A of the New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) enables that "a housing court judge appoints an administrator to collect the building's rents and use them for repairs" as an alternative to "fruitless rent strikes ." [1] About 10% per year of those appointed in the 1980s were removed, and money accountability ...

  9. New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal

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    The New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal ( DHCR) is an agency of the New York state government [1] responsible for administering housing and community development programs to promote affordable housing, community revitalization, and economic growth. Its primary functions include supervising rent regulations through the State ...