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New York Housing Data: Free Datasets
Homzora editorial team · Updated September 28, 2026
Everything below is free to download, with no email required. Each file records where its figures came from, when they were checked, and what they cannot tell you.
Our sources, what we verify, and what we deliberately do not publish are set out on the New York methodology page.
New York Security Deposit Statute Reference 2026
Sections 7-108 and 7-103 of the General Obligations Law, as rewritten by the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019.
New York has the strongest deposit protections of the cities we cover. A hard cap of one month rent, where Georgia allows two and Illinois and Florida set no cap at all. Fourteen days to return the deposit with an itemized statement, against fifteen in Florida, thirty in Georgia and forty five in Chicago. And a landlord who misses that deadline forfeits the entire deposit rather than merely losing a deduction.
The file covers what counts toward the cap, the inspection rights, the prohibition on non-refundable fees, and punitive damages of up to twice the deposit for a willful violation. It does not cover section 7-107, which governs rent regulated units, and says so.
New York MTA Fares 2026
The fare schedule adopted by the MTA board and effective from 4 January 2026, taken from the authority's own published materials.
The significant change is that New York no longer has a monthly transit pass. The 30 day unlimited MetroCard was withdrawn along with the 7 day and Express Bus Plus products, replaced by an automatic rolling seven day fare cap. Twelve rides are charged in any seven day window and everything after that is free.
For a regular commuter that works out near 150 dollars a month, which is more than any other city we cover. For someone travelling irregularly it is cheaper than a monthly pass would have been, because nothing is bought in advance.
Two news sources report the cap as 36 dollars where the MTA document says 35. We publish the MTA figure and record the difference.
New York Rent Stabilization Reference 2026
The Rent Guidelines Board guideline increases, the scope of the stabilization and rent control systems, and the rights attaching to a regulated tenancy.
The current position is a rent freeze. On 25 June 2026 the Board voted seven to one to authorize a zero percent increase on both one and two year renewals for leases commencing 1 October 2026 through 30 September 2027, covering roughly a million apartments. The preceding order allowed 3 percent and 4.5 percent.
About one million apartments are stabilized, which is 41 percent of the city rental apartments and 27 percent of all housing. Rent control is separate and much smaller at roughly 16,400 units.
New York Notice Periods and Rent Increase Rules 2026
Notice scales with how long you have lived somewhere: 30 days under a year, 60 days from one to two, and 90 days at two years or more. The trigger is an increase of 5 percent or more, or a non renewal.
The file also covers the fourteen day rent demand that must precede a nonpayment case, and the fee caps. New York limits late fees to 50 dollars or 5 percent of rent, whichever is less, and application fees to 20 dollars. No other jurisdiction we cover caps either.
One figure we do not publish: sources describe the Good Cause Eviction threshold differently and we have not resolved it.
New York FARE Act Broker Fee Reference 2026
The Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses Act, Local Law 119 of 2024, which took effect on 11 June 2025.
A broker representing a landlord can no longer charge a broker fee to a tenant. Whoever hires the broker pays, and in most New York City rentals that is the landlord. The ban applies even to leases signed before the effective date where the fee had not yet been paid.
Before the Act a tenant was routinely charged one month rent, or twelve to fifteen percent of the annual rent, for a broker the landlord had hired. On a three thousand dollar apartment that is over five thousand dollars. It is the largest change to New York City upfront rental costs since 2019.
The file also covers the itemized disclosure requirement, landlord liability for listing agents, enforcement by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, and three published figures we report without verifying.
New York City Executed Evictions 2017 to 2026
Evictions actually carried out by New York City Marshals, from the city record of their work.
These are executed evictions, not filings and not notices. A Marshal turned up and the tenancy ended. That makes this a harder measure than the eviction notice counts we publish for San Francisco, and the two should not be set side by side: one city records what landlords started, the other records what was finished. The series runs from 2017, the first year the city publishes, and the shape of it is the moratorium. 22,522 in 2017. 268 in 2021. 19,304 in 2025.
The file breaks 2025 down by borough and by residential or commercial property. The Bronx leads at 5,896, ahead of Brooklyn, despite being the smaller borough. Borough and property type figures reconcile exactly to the annual total. The 2026 figure is a partial year and is marked as one.
New York City Housing Maintenance Code Violations by Class 2025
Violations of the Housing Maintenance Code and the Multiple Dwelling Law issued by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development during 2025.
HPD issued 868,445 violations in 2025. Of those, 281,145 were class C, the immediately hazardous category that covers conditions like no heat, no hot water, lead paint and vermin. Nearly one violation in three issued last year was in the most serious class the city has.
The file records what each class means and each class share of the year. It counts by the date the notice of violation was issued rather than by inspection date, because the two differ and the choice changes the totals. It also records the agency caveat that matters most here: a violation shown as open does not mean the condition still exists, because a violation closes only when HPD verifies the fix or the owner certifies it. Counts of open violations circulate widely as a measure of current conditions and overstate it for that reason. A borough breakdown was attempted and is not published, because the query failed repeatedly and a partial answer is worse than none.
New York City Rent Stabilized Housing Stock
The size of the rent stabilized stock and the units moving into and out of it, from Rent Guidelines Board reporting.
About 960,000 units, or 41.3 percent of the 2,323,990 occupied rental units in the city, with a vacancy rate of 0.98 percent. Below one percent. For context, a vacancy rate under five percent is the statutory basis on which rent stabilization continues to exist at all.
The file also carries the 2024 flows: about 25,940 units entering stabilization and at least 11,042 leaving, the largest single cause of exits being the market rate threshold exemption under 421-a. Two cautions are recorded in the file rather than left to the reader. The stock figure is a 2023 survey estimate and the flows are 2024 administrative counts, so they come from different instruments in different years and must not be differenced against each other. And exits are reported by the source as a minimum, not an exact count, which makes the net gain of 14,898 an upper bound.
For a practical sequence covering the apartment search, moving arrangements and move-in documentation, use the New York moving guide alongside these references. Review the source dates and limitations before applying any information to your own move.
What is not here yet
No rent figures for New York neighborhoods. No compilation of section 7-107, which governs rent stabilized units, so the rent stabilization material here is stock and flow counts rather than the statute itself. No step by step eviction process reference; the eviction file counts evictions carried out, not the procedure that leads to one. No borough breakdown of rent stabilized units, because no primary source we reviewed publishes one.
We have no New York survey data, so the three indices named on the edition homepage are proposed rather than collected.
Using these files
The statute reference is licensed CC BY 4.0, since the underlying text is a public record. The fare file carries no license yet, because we have not reviewed the source reuse terms.
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