The residents have been clamoring to have their occupancy rights recognized by law for more than a century.

One helps to guarantee the continued flow of maintenance payments, the other addresses occupancy rights.

Many of those who are under-income complied with the system and successfully protected their occupancy rights.

Such tenants were given legal occupancy rights under the loft law.

Whatever the means, the outcome was that he now had undisputed occupancy rights for the whole building.

A recent court decision, some legal experts say, has confused the issue of a co-op board's authority on occupancy rights.

Communities consisting largely of tenants without occupancy rights and those with insecure land tenure.

But occupancy rights would depend on the terms of the co-op's proprietary leases.

Most leases give automatic occupancy rights to spouses but require board approval of anyone else.

If current payments are not made, the court may hold that the shareholders have lost their occupancy rights even during the bankruptcy workout.