The Rent Control Board has clarified existing rules stipulating landlords may not take rent-controlled apartments off the market and later rent them at market rate.

The Rent Control Board voted unanimously Thursday to clarify that a previously rent-controlled unit that is no longer on the rental market will become subject to rent control if its owner decides to put it back on the market. The board’s action comes two months after a final ruling in a legal battle between the board and a landlord that brought a 13-unit apartment building at 1041 20th St. back under rent control.

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