Newark Rent Control Board
Rent-adjustment petitions, illegal rent-increase findings, and board rulings —
sourced from City Bureau's Documenters.org, the one civic record for this board.
5
Rent Control cases tracked
2
Illegal rent increase cases
2
Landlords found in violation
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they're identified as the responsible party. Each case's summary below is generated from classified
facts only (violation type, dollar amounts, appearance, ruling) — never copied from the source
notes — and links to the full public account on Documenters.org for anyone who wants it.Tenant names are never collected. The people who file these petitions are never pulled from the hearing notes into anything shown on this page — our data structure has no field for tenant names at all. Landlords are named — whether a person or a company — whenever the hearing record identifies one. A landlord defending a case in a public hearing isn't owed the anonymity a tenant seeking help is, and this site already names people elsewhere when the record identifies them as the responsible party. Each case summary below is built only from classified facts (type of violation, dollar amounts, who showed up, the ruling) — never copied from the source notes — and links to the full public account on Documenters.org for anyone who wants it.
Cases
OtherAdjourned
The First Case · 2026-06-16
Case was adjourned; no ruling yet.
Illegal rent increaseFound in violation
The Fourth Case · 2026-06-16
Landlord: Mr Shraggy
Illegal rent increase complaint. Landlord: Mr Shraggy. The board found the landlord in violation and ruled for the tenant. Amounts mentioned: $988, $1400, $1037, $7,678.A tenant reported an illegal rent increase. The landlord was Mr Shraggy. The board found the landlord broke the rules and sided with the tenant. Dollar amounts mentioned in the case: $988, $1400, $1037, $7,678.
Illegal rent increaseFound in violation
Case 1 · 2026-05-12
Illegal rent increase complaint. Landlord did not appear. The board found the landlord in violation and ruled for the tenant. Amounts mentioned: $1175, $1250, $1350, $1,350, $175, $75, $100.A tenant reported an illegal rent increase. The landlord did not show up to the hearing. The board found the landlord broke the rules and sided with the tenant. Dollar amounts mentioned in the case: $1175, $1250, $1350, $1,350, $175, $75, $100.
OtherDismissed
Case #3 · 2026-05-12
Case was dismissed.
Other
Case #5 · 2026-05-12
Other complaint. Amounts mentioned: $1,850, $2,650.