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NYC rental glossary
Good Cause Eviction
A 2024 New York law that gives many market-rate tenants a right to renew and a check on unreasonable rent increases.
Good Cause Eviction (GCE) is a tenant-protection law enacted in 2024 that extends a renewal right and a rent-increase check to many free-market tenants who are not covered by rent stabilization. Under it, a covered tenant generally cannot be removed except for an enumerated "good cause," and a rent increase above a defined local standard is presumptively unreasonable and challengeable in court.
Coverage is not a property of the rent regime — it is orthogonal. Whether a given unit is covered turns on building age, the size of the owner’s portfolio, the current rent relative to a high-rent threshold, and several statutory exemptions (new construction, small landlords, owner-occupied small buildings, units already regulated, and others). The same building can hold both covered and exempt units.
Because coverage is fact-specific, Urbero models GCE status as a per-unit overlay rather than a regulation type, and treats the increase standard as an advisory ceiling on free-market units flagged as covered — surfaced at pricing time, not enforced as a hard statutory cap.
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GCE coverage in the rent gateRelated terms
- Rent StabilizationA NYC regulatory system that caps annual rent increases and grants tenants a near-automatic right to renew their lease.
- HSTPA (Housing Stability & Tenant Protection Act)The sweeping 2019 New York law that reshaped rent regulation, ending vacancy deregulation and capping improvement increases.
- Warranty of HabitabilityA non-waivable promise, implied in every NYC residential lease, that the apartment is fit to live in.
- Housing CourtThe NYC court that hears landlord-tenant disputes — evictions, repairs, and warranty-of-habitability claims.
- Renewal LeaseA lease offered to a sitting tenant to extend the tenancy — near-automatic and rent-capped for stabilized units.
- Legal Regulated RentThe maximum lawful rent for a rent-regulated unit, registered with the state and built up from a base plus permitted increases.
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.