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NYC rental glossary
HPD Violation
A recorded NYC housing-code violation, classed A (non-hazardous), B (hazardous), or C/I (immediately hazardous).
When the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) inspects a building and finds a housing-maintenance-code breach, it records a violation classed by severity: Class A (non-hazardous), Class B (hazardous), and Classes C and I (immediately hazardous — no heat, lead paint, vermin, and the like). Each class carries its own correction deadline and civil-penalty exposure for the owner.
Open violations are public, attach to the building by BBL/BIN, and follow it through a sale — so they are a core part of ownership diligence and a signal of how a building is run. The immediately-hazardous classes are the ones that most often drive tenant actions and owner penalties.
Urbero pulls a building’s open HPD violations by class — alongside ECB penalties, housing-court litigation, and 311 complaints — directly from NYC data and surfaces them on the building and landlord-compliance views, so a brokerage sees a portfolio’s risk without a manual HPD Online lookup.
See it in the product
NYC compliance, built inRelated terms
- Warranty of HabitabilityA non-waivable promise, implied in every NYC residential lease, that the apartment is fit to live in.
- Heat SeasonThe Oct 1–May 31 window when NYC owners must keep apartments heated to legal minimums; hot water is required year-round.
- Housing CourtThe NYC court that hears landlord-tenant disputes — evictions, repairs, and warranty-of-habitability claims.
This definition is general information about a New York City rental or rent-regulation concept, not legal advice. The rules change and often turn on facts specific to a building, unit, and tenancy — confirm the current rule and consult a qualified attorney before acting on any individual matter.