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RETALIATORY EVICTION, CONSTRUCTIVE EVICTION AND BREACH OF WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY DEFENSES SHOULD HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED IN THIS EVICTION PROCEEDING (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department, reversing County Court (which had affirmed Town Court), determined that the tenant-respondent’s defenses in this eviction proceeding should have been considered:

“When a landlord-tenant relationship exists, the landlord may maintain a special proceeding to remove a tenant if, as relevant here, ‘[t]he tenant continues in possession of any portion of the premises after the expiration of his [or her] term'” … . The tenant is free, however, to raise “any legal or equitable defense, or counterclaim” in answering the allegations in the petition … .

In that regard, respondent asserted a defense of retaliatory eviction, which includes the scenario wherein a landlord terminates a tenancy “to punish the tenant for complaining to government authorities and then . . . brings a holdover proceeding to evict the tenant” … . Respondent made “[a] good faith complaint . . . to a governmental authority of the landlord’s violation of any health or safety law, regulation, code, or ordinance” within the six months prior to the commencement of this proceeding … . …

​Town Court further failed to grapple with the defenses of constructive eviction and breach of the implied warranty of habitability raised by respondent. County Court correctly observed that these defenses cannot forestall an eviction in a holdover proceeding, but overlooked that they are viable “defense[s] to the recovery of rent” in such proceeding ,,, , Matter of Kirkview Assoc. LP v Amrock, 2018 NY Slip Op 02389, Third Dept 4-5-18

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