NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2078 · cited Feb 5, 1976 – Jul 1, 2026
620 NYC housing violations have been issued under NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2078, which is 0.0% of every HPD violation attributed to a section. 299 are still open, 297 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.
The median legal deadline on a § 27-2078 notice is 35 days. The median violation that got fixed took 1,405 days to reach “violation closed”, measured across 198 closed violations.
The most common orders written under this section, in HPD’s own wording.
| BROOKLYN | 112 | |
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| QUEENS | 91 | |
| BRONX | 61 | |
| MANHATTAN | 22 | |
| STATEN ISLAND | 13 |
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§ 27-2078 Rental of rooms to boarders.
a. A family may rent one or more living rooms in an apartment to not more than two boarders, roomers or lodgers, if every living room in such apartment has free and unobstructed access to each required exit from such apartment as provided in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision four of section two hundred forty-eight or paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section fifty-three of the multiple dwelling law, and if each such boarder, roomer or lodger has access to, and the right to use, at least one water closet, bath or shower and one washbasin as may be required in or for an apartment in this code.
b. Where a tenant rents any part of an apartment in a multiple dwelling to more than two boarders, roomers or lodgers, such rental shall constitute a use of the apartment for single room occupancy and such rental in an apartment of a converted dwelling shall constitute an unlawful use as a rooming unit.
c. A family may rent one or more living rooms in a private dwelling to not more than two boarders, roomers or lodgers, except as otherwise prohibited under the zoning resolution of the city of New York.
Current through Local Law 2026/116, enacted July 11, 2026 · enacted municipal law, in the public domain · official publication
NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2078, "Rental of rooms to boarders", is cited on a violation when an HPD inspector finds the condition it covers. A family may rent one or more living rooms in an apartment to not more than two boarders, roomers or lodgers, if every living room in such apartment has free and unobstructed access to each required exit from such apartment as provided in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision four of section two hundred forty-eight or paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section fifty-three of the multiple dwelling law, and if each such boarder, roomer or lodger has access to, and the right to use, at least one water closet, bath or shower and one washbasin as may be required in or for an apartment in this code.
Each notice carries its own deadline set by the violation's hazard class. Across 620 § 27-2078 notices, the median legal deadline was 35 days from the notice date.
Measured across 198 § 27-2078 violations that reached "violation closed", the median took 1,405 days from the notice date, against a median legal deadline of 35 days.
299 § 27-2078 violations are open as of Aug 7, 2026, and 297 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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