New York Rent Laws
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The Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act [1962]

Section 2.  LEGISLATIVE FINDING.

The legislature hereby finds that a serious public emergency
continues to exist in the housing of a considerable number of
persons in the state of New York which emergency was created by
war, the effects of war and the aftermath of hostilities; that
such emergency necessitated the intervention of federal, state
and local government in order to prevent speculative, unwarranted
and abnormal increases in rents; that there continues to exist an
acute shortage of dwellings; that unless residential rents and
evictions continue to be regulated and controlled, disruptive
practices and abnormal conditions will produce serious threats to
the public health, safety and general welfare; that to prevent
such perils to health, safety and welfare, preventive action by
the legislature continues to be imperative; that such action is
necessary in order to prevent exactions of unjust, unreasonable
and oppressive rents and rental agreements and to forestall
profiteering, speculation and other disruptive practices tending
to produce threats to the public health; that in order to prevent
uncertainty, hardship and dislocation, the provisions of this
section are necessary and designed to protect the public health,
safety and general welfare, that the transition from regulation
to a normal market of free bargaining between landlord and
tenant, while still the objective of state policy, must be
administered with due regard for such emergency; and that the
policy herein expressed should now be administered locally within
cities having a population of one million or more by an agency of
the city itself.