Remove All Encumbrances Consisting Of Household Items At Public
HPD order 538 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005 · written Feb 10, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026
HPD has written 82,752 violations under order 538, "Remove All Encumbrances Consisting Of Household Items At Public", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2005. 23,125 are open right now, 22,358 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
Open now
23,125
Open past deadline
22,358
Closed
59,627
All time
82,752
Class C (immediately hazardous)
2
How order 538 is actually enforced
2,672 notices (3.2%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
828 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 173 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
791 repairs were certified after the deadline.
12,246 notices (14.8%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
82,752 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.
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.