DHCR has issued new fact sheets to conform to the changes in the rent laws made by the Rent Act of 2011.
Fact Sheets #12, #3 and #5 reflect the changes in the law, effective September 24, 2011, limiting the amount of the permanent rent increase for an individual apartment improvement to only 1/60^th of the cost of the improvement in buildings that contain more than 35 apartments and not 1/40^th, as was previously allowed for those buildings.

• Fact Sheet # 12 (7/11) – Rent Increases for Individual Apartment Improvements (IAI)
• Fact Sheet # 3 (7/11) – Required and Essential Services
• Fact Sheet # 5 (7/11) – Vacancy Leases in Rent Stabilized Apartments

Changes to Fact Sheets #36 and #40 reflect the increase in the high rent vacancy threshold to $2500 and the increase in the high-income high-rent threshold to $200,000.

• Fact Sheet # 36 (7/11) – High-Rent Vacancy Deregulation and High-Rent High-Income Deregulation
• Fact Sheet # 40 (7/11) – Preferential Rents
  

Changes to Fact Sheets #26, #31, #31a, and #31b were made to conform to the changes made by the 2011 RGB orders in New York City, and Nassau, Westchester and Rockland counties.

The change to Fact Sheet #26 (New York City) also reflects the minimum dollar rent increases authorized by RGB orders #40 and #41 which were upheld in the Casado case in 2011.

• Fact Sheet # 26 (7/11) – Guide to Rent Increases for Rent Stabilized Apartments in New York City
• Fact Sheet # 31 Nassau (7/11) – Guide to Rent Increase for Rent Stabilized Apartments in Nassau County
• Fact Sheet # 31a Rockland (7/11) – Guide to Rent Increase for Rent Stabilized Apartments in Rockland County
• Fact Sheet # 31b Westchester (7/11) – Guide to Rent Increase for Rent Stabilized Apartments in Westchester County.