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8 sie 2018 · To apply for succession, you must file an application with the housing company that manages your Mitchell-Lama building. If the housing company denies your request, the application then goes to HPD or DHCR, depending on which agency oversees the development, and they make a ruling.
Protecting apartment resources. Under both HCR and HPD rules and regulations, you can apply occupancy standards to succession. In practical terms, this means avoiding the misallocation of apartment resources where a single individual, through succession, is living in a three-bedroom apartment.
The Mitchell-Lama program provides affordable rental and cooperative housing to moderate- and middle-income families. The program was sponsored by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell and Assemblyman Alfred Lama, and was signed into law in 1955.
What are the Mitchell Lama succession rights? Mitchell Lama succession rights allow authorized family members and “non-traditional family members” who have lived with the tenant for the required number of years prior to their vacatur/death to succeed to the apartment.
Under the Rent Stabilization Code and Mitchel Lama laws, qualifying family members may have a right to retain in the apartment, provided that they have resided with the tenant of record for a period of two years or more before the tenant's permanent vacatur of the apartment or two years prior to their death.
Under the Rent Stabilization Code and Mitchell Lama laws, qualifying family members have a right to remain in the apartment if they have resided with the tenant-of-record (leaseholder) for a period of at least two years before the tenant's permanent vacatur from the apartment.
