QUESTION
What is the process for verifying eligibility for rental units to receive J51 benefits?
0:46:21
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The deputy commissioner explains that for property owners to receive J51 benefits for rental buildings, they must demonstrate during the application process that at least 50% of units are rent-stabilized and rents are below 80% of the area median income.
- Owners submit an application after completing eligible work on their property.
- As part of the application, they must provide evidence that the building meets eligibility requirements.
- For rental buildings, this means at least 50% of units must be rent-stabilized.
- Additionally, the rents for those rent-stabilized units must be below 80% of the area median income.
- The department will not issue a certificate of eligibility unless the owner can prove these criteria are met.
- There are some exceptions where different requirements apply, such as for Mitchell-Lama buildings.
Alexa Avilés
0:46:21
In terms of the data that is being maintained, is there a list of units with either missing information or registration, that you keep in order to to triage or or or check into the eligibility.
Kim Darga
0:46:46
So at the point of application, the owner needs to so going forward for the new program, the way this will work is the applicant decides they wanna apply for J51, they do the work, they submit the application to us.
0:46:59
Part of what they need to demonstrate is that they need the eligibility requirements.
0:47:03
For a rental building.
0:47:06
That means they need to show that at least 50% of the units are rent stabilized.
0:47:11
And that the the rent for those units is below 80% of area median income.
0:47:19
So we will not issue a certificate of eligibility without the owner being able to demonstrate that.
0:47:25
Again, there's certainly some rental buildings where that's not the requirement.
0:47:28
So Mitchellama is being, I think, the 1st and foremost example.
0:47:31
But generally speaking, that is the requirement.
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