Mouakad v. Ross

When hotels were removed from rent control by passage of the Federal Housing and Rent Act of 1947 (U. S. Code, tit. 50, Appendix, § 1881 et seq.), the resulting wide-spread *272increase in the rents of permanent guests of hotels presented an emergency which the City of New York met by the enactment of Local Law No. 54 of 1947 (adding section U41-6.0 to the Administrative Code of the City of New York). Subdivision a of that section reads: “ It is hereby declared that a serious emergency exists in the city of New York by reason of the shortage of housing accommodations, hotel, apartment hotel,…