ABSTRACT
This part of the study was based upon all of New York City's multiple-family rental structures that derived the bulk of their incomes from residential use and had more than 80 percent of their units rent controlled. This involves approximately one million housing units in New York City in approximately 53,000 structures. In the body of this work, the data are along those lines. New York City has a total of two million rented housing units; about 200,000 of those units are rent controlled and are excluded from this analysis. These involve units which are conversions of small structures as well as single-room occupancies. Those units which are not rent controlled under the 1943 Temporary Rent Control Law are typically structures built after 1947 which have higher rents. The proportion of welfare tenants in such units is relatively small. There are, in addition, around 100,000 decontrolled units. These typically have been decontrolled either because of their luxury status (apartments under certain strictures renting for more than $250 a month), because they have been essentially rebuilt under certain rehabilitation programs, or because they have been divided into smaller units. The welfare occupancy in these units is not known, but it certainly is smaller in both proportion and absolute number than it is in the areas of the housing market sampled here.
