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Remove All Encumbrances Consisting Of Household Items At Public

HPD order 538 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Feb 10, 1966 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 82,666 violations under order 538, "Remove All Encumbrances Consisting Of Household Items At Public", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 23,128 are open right now, 22,382 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
23,128
Open past deadline
22,382
Closed
59,538
All time
82,666
Class C (immediately hazardous)
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How order 538 is actually enforced

  • 2,655 notices (3.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 824 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 171 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 790 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 12,231 notices (14.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 82,666 notices (100.0%) are rent-impairing, the class of violation that can let tenants deposit rent with the court under MDL § 302-a instead of paying the owner.
  • 23,566 notices (28.5%) were dismissed.

Open order-538 violations by borough

BROOKLYN13,810
MANHATTAN4,127
QUEENS2,648
BRONX2,285
STATEN ISLAND258

The law behind this order

Order 538is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005, "Duties of owner". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2005 Duties of owner · Browse open § 27-2005 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 5, 2026.