Loft Law

The Loft Law is the state regime that legalized residential tenancies in buildings converted informally from industrial use: covered buildings — interim multiple dwellings — entered a supervised path toward residential legality, with tenant protections during the transition and obligations on owners to bring buildings to code and obtain residential certificates of occupancy. Coverage windows have been extended by amendment over the decades.

For records reading, Loft Law status explains otherwise contradictory files: residential occupancy in buildings whose certificates say manufacturing, rent protections in districts where stabilization's usual triggers don't reach, and long-running legalization dockets. Buildings still in the pipeline carry both the obligations and the protections of the transition.