§ 52-10 Rent as a Percentage of Total Aggregate Household Disposable Income Requirement and Total Aggregate Household Disposable Income Limit.
RCNY § 52-10
(a)For an initial SCRIE or DRIE application, the rent for the apartment must exceed one-third of the total aggregate household disposable income of all members of the household to be eligible for benefits. For renewal applications, redetermination applications and apartment benefit transfer applications, if the rent set forth in the rent exemption order does not exceed one third of the total aggregate household disposable income of all members of the household, the rent the head of the household will be required to pay will be increased to one-third of the total aggregate household disposable income of all members of the household for those whose benefits are effective as of July 2, 2015 or later. However, this one-third of the total aggregate disposable income of all members of the household eligibility requirement does not apply to a head of the household to whom a rent exemption order took effect on or before July 1, 2015.
(b)For renewal applications for the period commencing immediately after the expiration of a rent increase exemption order where it is determined that the head of the household is ineligible for a rent increase exemption order because the total aggregate household income exceeds $50,000 or because the maximum rent or legal regulated rent does not exceed one-third of the total aggregate household disposable income, such head of the household may submit a new application during the following calendar year and if such head of the household receives a rent increase exemption order that commences during such calendar year, the frozen rent amount and tax abatement amount for such order shall be calculated as if such prior rent increase exemption order had not expired. However, the frozen rent amount may be adjusted higher or lower to maintain the one-third ratio based upon the renewal total aggregate disposable income. However, no rent increase exemption benefits or tax abatement benefits will be provided for the period of ineligibility. No head of the household may receive more than three such rent increase exemption orders in accordance with this subdivision. (Added City Record 5/14/2021, eff. 6/13/2021)
