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Remove All Encumbrances Consisting Of Household Items At Public

HPD order 838 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Apr 12, 2000 – Aug 3, 2026

HPD has written 3,966 violations under order 838, "Remove All Encumbrances Consisting Of Household Items At Public", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 2,535 are open right now, 2,505 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
2,535
Open past deadline
2,505
Closed
1,431
All time
3,966
Class C (immediately hazardous)
0

How order 838 is actually enforced

  • 123 notices (3.1%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 65 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 3 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 60 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 1,265 notices (31.9%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 468 notices (11.8%) were dismissed.

Open order-838 violations by borough

BROOKLYN1,639
QUEENS639
BRONX149
STATEN ISLAND65
MANHATTAN43

The law behind this order

Order 838is 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.