NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018.1 · cited Apr 1, 2021 – Jun 25, 2026
522,972 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018.1, which is 4.7% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 194,217 are still open, 162,633 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2018.1 notice is 95 days. The median violation that got fixed took 415 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 2,289 closed violations.
Owners must give new tenants a form showing the recent bedbug history for the apartment and the building. Owners of multiple dwellings must also share the latest annual bedbug report and a bedbug prevention guide with all tenants, either with leases or by posting them in a public area.
Provide or post the required bedbug notices and file the required annual report, then certify the correction to HPD by the deadline on the notice.
Tenants who never received the bedbug history form can file a written complaint to force the owner to provide it.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 107,154 | |
|---|---|---|
| QUEENS | 38,209 | |
| BRONX | 29,059 | |
| MANHATTAN | 18,060 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 1,735 |
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§ 27-2018.1 Notice of bedbug infestation history.
a. For housing accommodations subject to this code, an owner shall furnish to each tenant signing a vacancy lease, a notice in a form promulgated or approved by the state division of housing and community renewal that sets forth the property's bedbug infestation history for the previous year regarding the premises rented by the tenant and the building in which the premises are located.
b. Upon written complaint, in a form promulgated or approved by the division of housing and community renewal, by the tenant that he or she was not furnished with a copy of the notice required pursuant to subdivision a of this section, the division of housing and community renewal shall order the owner to furnish the notice.
c. An owner of a multiple dwelling shall (i) provide each tenant, upon commencement of a new lease and with each renewal lease, or (ii) post, in a prominent public location within such multiple dwelling the following: 1. a copy of the most recent electronic form submitted pursuant to subdivision a of section 27-2018.2; and 2. a notice, in a form promulgated or approved by the department of health and mental hygiene, that provides information about the prevention, detection and removal of bedbug infestations. (Am. L.L. 2017/069, 5/10/2017, eff. 11/6/2017)
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2018.1, "Bedbug history notices", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. Owners must give new tenants a form showing the recent bedbug history for the apartment and the building. Owners of multiple dwellings must also share the latest annual bedbug report and a bedbug prevention guide with all tenants, either with leases or by posting them in a public area.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 522,972 § 27-2018.1 notices, the median legal deadline was 95 days from the notice date.
Measured across 2,289 § 27-2018.1 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 415 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 95 days.
194,217 § 27-2018.1 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 162,633 of them are already past the legal deadline on the notice.
Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset. Each notice is attributed to a section by HPD’s own order number where one is on record, otherwise by the section its notice text cites. 11,131,117 of the city’s 11,136,167 HPD notices are attributed that way; the share above is a share of those. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.
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