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TENANT-BRIEF
Your Landlord Offered You Money to Move Out. Now What?
A lease buyout pays you to give up a rent-stabilized apartment — decline, negotiate, or stay. How to weigh it, plus the 180-day stop-contact right.
TENANT-BRIEF
Renting Month-to-Month in NYC: Your Rights When There's No Lease
Month-to-month tenants in NYC still get protections — 30/60/90-day notice before a rent hike or move-out, by how long you’ve lived there.
TENANT-BRIEF
Your Building Just Sold. Here's What Actually Changes for You as a Tenant
When your NYC building sells, your lease transfers with it and is honored to its term — a sale alone can’t reset your rent or evict you. What changes.
TENANT-BRIEF
When Your Building's 421-a Tax Break Expires: What It Means for Your Rent
If your NYC building gets a 421-a tax break, your apartment is almost certainly rent-stabilized until it expires — and one missing lease rider can keep it stabilized for your entire tenancy.
TENANT-BRIEF
How to Get Your NYC Rent History (Free) — and What It Tells You
Your apartment’s official rent history is free from NY State HCR — the legal rent for every registered year. How to request it and what it reveals.
TENANT-BRIEF
Are You Being Overcharged? NYC Rent Overcharge Rules and How to File a Complaint
A rent overcharge can be recovered up to six years back — plus triple damages if willful. How to spot one with your free HCR rent history and file.
POLICY-BRIEF
NYC's Housing Insurance Program Moves Forward: The Hunt for an Operator Begins
The city has opened the process to find who will run its first-of-its-kind insurance program for affordable and rent-stabilized housing — $100M, responses due August 6. What's happening now, who's eligible, and what it means for the 865,000 apartments in scope.
Tenant brief
Preferential Rent in NYC: Why Your Lease Shows Two Rents — and Which One Actually Matters
Paying preferential rent in NYC? Learn how renewal increases work, when a landlord can charge legal rent, and how to check your rent history.
Tenant brief
Behind on Rent in NYC? Here's How the Eviction Process Actually Works — and Where the Off-Ramps Are
Eviction in NYC is a process, not an event — no lockout, a 14-day rent demand, then Housing Court, often 400+ days. Most qualify for a free lawyer.
Policy brief
Your Building's Violation Record Just Became a Policy Lever. Here's the City's New Playbook.
NYC’s housing strategy now uses building violation records to push distressed buildings toward nonprofit ownership. How tenant organizing became a lever.
Tenant brief
HPD vs. DOB Violations: The Two Kinds of NYC Building Records, Explained
HPD violations cover inside conditions — heat, pests, mold; DOB covers structure and construction. A building clean on one can be troubled on the other.
Tenant brief
Why Housing Connect Applications Get Rejected — and How the Appeal Actually Works
Most Housing Connect applicants — nearly 77% by one recent study — end up rejected, and the top reasons are avoidable. What disqualifies applications, how the appeal process works, and the mistakes that quietly kill eligible applications.
Policy brief
The Rent Freeze Is Now on Paper: RGB Publishes Official Orders — Here's What to Check on Your Renewal
The RGB’s official rent-freeze orders are published, covering leases from Oct 1, 2026 to Sep 30, 2027. What your renewal lease should show.
Market brief
NYC Was Just Named America's Best City — for the 10th Year Running. Here's What It Costs to Live in No. 1.
For the 10th year running, NYC ranked America’s best city (Resonance, 2026). Here’s what living in No. 1 actually costs renters.
Resource center
NYC Rent Stabilization: The 2026 Resource Center
Everything Weverit has published on NYC rent stabilization in one place — how to check your status, what the 2026 rent freeze means, the SCRIE/DRIE programs that freeze rent permanently, and the data behind the rules.
Tenant brief
NYC Rent Freeze vs. SCRIE and DRIE: The Two Programs That Can Freeze Your Rent Indefinitely
SCRIE (age 62+) and DRIE (disability) freeze your rent as long as you qualify. Household income must be $50,000 or less and rent over a third of income.
Policy brief
The Numbers Behind NYC's 2026 Rent Freeze: What the Rent Guidelines Board's Affordability Survey Shows
The Rent Guidelines Board's 2026 Income and Affordability Study is the data behind the freeze: 51.6% of rent-stabilized renters are rent-burdened, nearly 30% of those severely so, unemployment up to 5.2%, evictions up 9.7%. Against landlord operating costs up 5.3%. The full picture, with sources kept distinct.
Policy brief
Why Is NYC Creating a City-Backed Insurance Program for Rent-Stabilized Buildings?
Insurance costs for rent-stabilized buildings nearly doubled in five years. NYC is launching a city-backed program to cut premiums 20%+. How it works.
Rent Guidelines Board
NYC Just Froze the Rent: What the Historic 2026 Rent Guidelines Board Vote Means for You
On June 25, 2026, the Rent Guidelines Board voted 7-1 to freeze rents at 0% on one- and two-year leases for ~1M rent-stabilized apartments. What it means.
Housing Assistance
The Quiet Voucher Change That Could Shrink Your Affordable-Housing Options in 2026
Augmented CityFHEPS — the higher-rent voucher for HPD placements — is shrinking. Current tenants are grandfathered; it narrows options for new placements.