![]() ![]() The apartments under the Mitchell-Lama program includes cooperative apartments ("co-ops") and rentals. Named after New York State Senator, MacNeil Mitchell, and Assemblyman Alfred Lama, Mitchell Lama is a housing program designed to create and maintain affordable housing for middle-income individuals in New York. Currently, about 45,000 apartments in New York City are subject to Mitchell-Lama regulation. Would render the restrictive clause unenforceable.Explore everything there is to know about Mitchell-Lama Housing. Must start an eviction proceeding in Housing Court based on the In this context, "enforce" means the landlord Possession of an apartment, or Obtaining a pet, or forever lose Prohibiting pets within three months of the tenant's taking Landlord to enforce any existing provision of a current lease Sometimes the law is called the "pet waiver law." It requires the Household pets, such lease provision shall be waived. Three month period to commence a summary proceeding or action toĮnforce a lease provision prohibiting the keeping of such Has knowledge of this fact, and such owner fails within this New York or any other applicable law, and the owner or his agent Law, the housing maintenance or the health codes of the city of Harboring of which is not prohibited by the multiple dwelling Unit, harbors or has harbored a household pet or pets, the Where a tenant in a multiple dwelling openly and notoriously forĪ period of three months or more following taking possession of a The provision was necessary "to prevent potential hardship andĭislocation of tenants within this city." To protect pet owners from retaliatory eviction" by landlordsĭesiring possession of apartments. Were kept for legitimate reasons of "safety and companionship"Īnd because of the continuing housing emergency it was "necessary The Council went on to declare, in the law, that pets Or her pet often for reasons unrelated to the creation of a Owners or their agents, who knowing that a tenant has a pet forĪn extended period of time, seek to evict the tenant and/or his Of household pets had led to, "widespread abuses by building The current law was enacted by the New York City CouncilĬoncerned that multiple dwelling leases prohibiting the keeping (NYCHA), however, are not protected, although NYCHA regulations ![]() Tenants living in New York City Housing Authority buildings O Tenants in privately - owned multiple dwellings (three or Strengthened with the enactment of Section 27-2009.1 of the The right to keep a pet in New York City apartments was It'll be hard for MRH to kick out any dog owners, though, given this law, via a commenter on a post about Stuy Town cracking down on pets: We'll wait to see if Farley get the management company, Mutual Redevelopment Houses, to enforce the rule. I've never been bitten, but the growling, the teeth and the jumping just scares me." She says, "I can't go in the elevator if there's a dog in there, and I'm afraid to go in some of the hallways. Farley is suing her apartment's management company to, as she tells the Daily News, " get rid of the dogs and play by the rules." Sixty-four year old Farley has a fear of dogs (cynophobia) points out that the rules at Penn South does have a ban on dogs and her lease says "no animals of any kind" (!!) are not allowed. Sometimes people just don't like dogs, and one of those people is Jeanne Farley. ![]()
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