The core mission of HPD is to promote quality housing and livable neighborhoods for all New Yorkers. One important way HPD fulfills this mission is by enforcing compliance with the City’s Housing Maintenance Code and New York State’s Multiple Dwelling Law. HPD seeks to support the preservation of privately owned housing by making both tenants and landlords aware of their rights and responsibilities.

Housing Maintenance Code

• Read the New York City Housing Maintenance Code online.
• To purchase your copy of the New York City Housing Maintenance Code and the New York State Multiple Dwelling Laws contact the City Store at (212) 669-7452.

Alternative Enforcement Program: An innovative new tool intended to target and fix some of the City’s most distressed residential buildings, the Alternative Enforcement Program allows HPD to focus on that small percentage of buildings which generate a disproportionate percentage of HPD’s enforcement activity.

Borough Code Enforcement Offices

If you would have questions about compliance with the Housing Maintenance Code, you may call the HPD code enforcement office in your borough.

Heat and Hot Water Rules: The City Housing Maintenance Code and Multiple Dwelling Law requires building owners to provide heat and hot water to all tenants.

HPD's Emergency Repair Program (ERP) : If an emergency condition is verified in an apartment by an HPD inspector, and the owner fails to make the necessary repairs in a timely manner, HPD's Emergency Repair Program (ERP) may repair the condition. If HPD repairs the emergency condition, HPD will bill the owner for the cost of repairs.

Demolishing Unsafe Buildings : HPD' s Demolition Unit may be called on to abate hazardous conditions in structurally unsafe buildings.

Violation Re-issuance Program : The Violations Reissuance Program is a program that provides owners whose properties are eligible for participation with an opportunity to have overdue or old HPD violations removed from HPD’s records without paying a fee as long as the appropriate information is submitted to HPD on or before the deadline stated on the Notice of Violation form.