Hoboken, NJ Rental Property Rules: Just Cause Eviction (2026)

Section 85-1 provides that, after the chapter's 1989 effective date, no rental housing units in Hoboken may be converted to condominium or cooperative units unless already approved by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs for conversion. Section 85-2 backs that ban with a direct eviction protection: no tenant may be evicted from a rental dwelling unit solely because the unit is being converted to condominium or cooperative ownership, closing off conversion as a pretext for removing a sitting tenant. A related protection sits in Chapter 86's construction code, added by Ordinance No.

B-34 in 2018 and amended in 2018 by Ordinance No. B-51. Section 86-6 applies whenever a landlord obtains certain construction permits, or seeks to demolish a building, that will require a tenant to relocate temporarily. Before the permit issues, the owner-landlord must hand-deliver or mail the tenant written notice covering displacement timing, the date of expected return, and that the tenant can only be evicted under the state Anti-Eviction Act, N.J.S.A. 2A:18-61.1, which allows eviction for demolition or renovation only through the procedure at N.J.S.A.

2A:18-61.1g; work done outside that procedure is not grounds for eviction. The same notice must cover relocation assistance eligibility, the right to comparable housing, the right to an attorney, and contact information for the state Department of Community Affairs' Relocation Support Program. These are Hoboken's own municipal notice duties layered onto the state eviction standard, not a restatement of state law alone, since the City requires the landlord to deliver the notice and ties it to the local permit process.