Studio apartments in good cause buildings for rent near X28 Sea Gate / Bensonhurst - Manhattan Express in West Village, Manhattan

Good cause is a tenant-protection category. It can limit certain rent increases or non-renewals, but it is not the same as official affordable housing and it does not remove the need to review the lease carefully.

No. These are market-rate studio apartments for rent in good cause buildings. Openigloo’s good cause filter is about tenant protections, not income limits, subsidy, NYCHA, HPD, or housing-lottery programs.

Good cause and rent-stabilized are different categories. Rent-stabilized housing follows regulated renewal and increase rules, while good cause is a tenant-protection category tied to certain limits on increases or non-renewals.

This page does not use the affordable filter, so there is no affordability threshold here. If you browse an affordable page, Openigloo uses a market-relative affordability threshold based on the 25th percentile of gross rents within that page’s scope.

Confirm whether the building is actually covered by good cause protections, whether the studio has any broker fee, what the security deposit is, and whether utilities are included in the asking rent.

With studio apartments, the unit count and median rent only tell part of the story. You also need to budget for how much space you can realistically use for sleeping, cooking, storage, and daily living in one room.

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