Supreme Court Declines To Hear Rent Control Case

October 2, 2023 / no comments

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case from New York state that had the potential to upend rent control laws not only in that state but nationwide. The case was a challenge to New York’s Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019.
The plaintiffs, the Community Housing Improvement Program and the Rent Stabilization Association, two New York-based landlord groups, challenged the 2019 law in hopes of having it voided, but they also challenged the entire framework of rent control in the state and elsewhere, asserting that it amounts to an unconstitutional taking of property.