Westchester Rent Guidelines Board holds hearings on hikes

The Westchester County Rent Guidelines Board will hold public hearings in the next two weeks before setting rent increases for regulated apartments for leases expiring in the year starting Oct. 1.

The hearings, all at 7 p.m., will be Monday at Mount Vernon City Hall, 1 Roosevelt Square; Tuesday at the Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin Center; and June 9 at the Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., White Plains.

A meeting to discuss the guidelines will be June 16 at 7 p.m. at the courthouse and the board is expected to vote at a meeting on June 23 at 7 p.m., also at the courthouse.

The Guidelines Board sets maximum rent increases for about 30,000 apartments regulated under the Emergency Tenant Protection Act, which generally covers larger buildings built before 1974 in municipalities that have opted in. Last year's rates were 3 percent for one-year leases and 4 percent for two-year leases, with minimum increases of $15 and $20, respectively.

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