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New Yorkers with rent-stabilized apartments can draw a sigh of relief as Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to the law.
THE SUPREME Court Monday refused to hear an appeal from a Manhattan couple seeking to end rent-stabilization laws.
James and Jeanne Harmon had lost earlier court attempts to get the laws thrown out, the most recent of which was a decision last year by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. The high court refused to review that decision.
The couple inherited a building that James Harmons parents bought in the 1940s near Central Park on the upper West Side. Three of the rent-stabilized apartments have had tenants or their family members there for years.
The Harmons said rent-stabilization laws force them to rent the apartments at 59 below market rate and argued that by giving the tenants lifetime tenure with succession rights, the government has illegally taken their property.
In a statement, James Harmon said the family was disappointed.
We still believe that the Constitution does not allow the government to force us to take strangers into our home at our expense for life, he said.
City officials said they were pleased.
Rent regulation in New York City has a long history, and the court properly left it to elected state and city officials to decide its future, said Alan Krams, senior counsel in the citys Law Department.
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