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Last fall, Mayor de Blasio signed a bill increasing the maximum penalties for owners found to have harassed their tenants, from $5,000 to $10,000, and requiring the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to post a list online of owners that have been found to harass their tenants. Now, there has been a new bill introduced targeting a similar pool of owners who aggressively seek to buy out rent-stabilized leases.
