Goldstein v. State Division of Housing & Community Renewal

*668In January 1986 the respondent New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (hereinafter the DHCR), which is charged with the administration of the rent control and rent stabilization laws, issued Supplement No. 1 to Operational Bulletin 84-4, which was in the nature of instructions, interpretive statements and general statements. Of particular relevance to this appeal, section C of Supplement No. 1 in the Bulletin (hereinafter section C) provided that the DHCR intended to disallow an increase in rent for major capital improvements which were paid for out of a cash reserve fund…