Article: MBR hearings underscore rent-control problems. (Maximum Base Rent)

MBR hearings underscore rent-control problems

Hearings held last week to discuss the calculation of the Maximum Base Rent (MBR) for rent-controlled apartments highlighted the problems between apartment house owners and those tenants still in possession.

Hearings are held every two years by the Division of Housing and Community Renewal (DHCR) to determine the increases in rent for the occupants of New York City apartments who, as one official put it, are a "dying breed."

Rent-controlled apartments that have not had a new tenant since before July 1, 1971 can be in the same building with rent-stabilized apartments as well as in those buildings which ...

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