The Supreme Court declined on Nov. 12 to take up a challenge to New York’s rent control law, which grants a building’s tenants veto power over condominium conversions.
The decision came in the form of an unsigned order regarding the petition filed in G-Max Management Inc. v. State of New York. The court did not provide reasons, which is its usual practice when turning down a case.
Justice Neil Gorsuch was the lone dissenter from the denial of the petition, voting to hear the case. He did not explain his vote.
Building owners said in their petition filed with the court on April 18 that New York’s Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019 transformed “a temporary rent-regulation system into a permanent expropriation of vast swaths of private real estate, without just compensation, in the name of ‘affordable housing.’”…