The city could set different rent rules for different areas, said the board's chairman, Edward S. Hochman.
Some critics are even looking at the rent rules in neighboring suburbs and in New Jersey for pointers.
The mayor praised his record on housing, but said the city still has a shortage and thus needs rent rules.
For instance, if you own a semi-detached house in London, the chances are your estate will be liable for the tax under cur rent rules.
The Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village Tenants Association is pursuing a plan that would allow some tenants to buy their apartments, while ensuring that thousands of other units stay affordable under the state's rent rules.
Under the city's rent rules, the landlord of a rent-stabilized apartment can raise the rent 20percentt after it is vacated and can also add 2.5percentt of the cost of any improvements or renovations to the monthly rent.
Under the rent rules, the cost of the improvement is spread out over the useful life and then applied proportionately to each apartment in the building, usually on a per-room basis.
Calling for more action, several Council members endorsed proposals to give the city more autonomy over rent rules, to curb rent increases by shifting rent-controlled apartments into the rent stabilization system and to eliminate the so-called poor-tax surcharge on low-rent apartments.
When the New York State Court of Appeals overturned some rent rules in place for more than nine years on Thursday, the decision opened a window for many market-rate New York City tenants, including some paying some of the highest rents in the country, to roll back rents and get the protections of the state government's rent regulation system.
It is much harder to get people to agree about taxis and rent rules than about the worth of love and marriage — that may be a New York-centric view, but I don't think it's one only to be found here.
