[4][5] It is operated by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), and this is "intended to protect residential tentants from negligent landlords.
[1] While a building is under 7A, since "rents are going toward repairs, landlords must make tax and mortgage payments from other income during this period."
"[1] The New York Post wrote in 1988 that "critics of 7A say it is so poorly supervised that incompetent and even corrupt administrators have gotten away with years of mispending a building's rent roll."
[6] One change that strengthened its use was allowing HPD to go to court without awaiting complaints from the originally required one third of the tenants.
"[2] By 1989, HPD was more actively involved, including "training and assisting 7A administrators and playing a role in helping judges to appoint them."