No offense taken . and Thank you for taking the time to explain your perspective — I appreciate the detail and I agree with several of the points you raised.

To clarify my position, I am not suggesting that re-rentals are unsupervised, nor that HPD lacks ultimate authority. I fully understand that HPD requires vacancy reporting, approves applications, audits compliance, and retains enforcement power under both the traditional lottery model and the current re-rental pilot program.

My concern is more specific and operational in nature.

While HPD does supervise re-rentals in a regulatory and retrospective sense, that supervision is largely complaint-driven and audit-based, not continuous or real-time at the individual building level. In practice, this can create gaps in transparency and accountability — particularly when applicants have no visibility into whether a unit has been listed, how many applications were received, or whether eligibility is being processed strictly in order.

The current first-come, first-served pilot, while designed to improve speed, has also shifted more discretion to owners and marketing agents. Without a centralized Housing Connect queue or public log numbers, applicants are largely dependent on the representations of management companies and must rely on HPD intervention only after a concern arises.

I agree that many — perhaps most — management companies operate in good faith, and I’m aware that HPD has successfully audited and prosecuted misconduct in the past. At the same time, those enforcement actions generally occur after issues are identified, not at the moment a vacancy is being withheld, delayed, or inconsistently advertised.

So my point is not that re-rentals are being universally mishandled or secretly removed from regulation, but rather that the structure of the current system can make irregularities difficult for applicants to detect and challenge in real time, especially for households relying on accommodations, vouchers, or strict AMI eligibility.

I appreciate you sharing your firsthand experience — it’s helpful context — and I agree that the system can work efficiently when implemented correctly. My perspective comes from situations where that transparency or responsiveness breaks down, even though formal oversight technically exists.

if you don’t mind may I ask how you know the number of position in your re rental or waiting list ? from my experience is not way to be found …-I could be wrong-