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8 sie 2018 · The rules for succession in Mitchell-Lama housing include providing proof that you’re related to the current tenant and have lived in the apartment with them.
The complete requirements for succession rights can be found in the Mitchell-Lama rules on HPD’s Web page at www.nyc.gov/hpd. There are three (3) conditions you must meet and document to qualify for succession: . (1) Authorized Family Member, (2) Inclusion on the necessary Income Affidavits, and . (3) Occupancy during the Co-Residency Period.
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.
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.
Under the New York State Private Housing Finance Law, the Mitchell-Lama development in which you reside receives a subsidy allowing for tenants/cooperators, whose incomes are within the maximum income limits set by law, to pay below market rents/carrying charges.
A family member attempting to succeed to a Mitchell-Lama apartment will have to submit an Application for Succession to the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development and follow the procedures set in place by the individual housing development.
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.
