By DAVID CRUZ 

Elected officials are stepping in to handle the aftermath of rent laws expiring. Their first assurance: don’t panic.

Sure while this may be the day some rent regulation laws have legally expired, most haven’t. With that, government agencies have been disbursing materials for rent-stabilized tenants. The Bronx has just over 231,000 rent-regulated units, according to a 2011 study by the Furman Center. The New York City Buildings Department under the de Blasio Administration, which has championed for stronger rent regulation laws, offered a breakdown of what 2 million rent stabilized tenants should expect from their landlords, and vice-versa:

If you are one of the more than two million New Yorkers who lives in rent-regulated housing, here’s what you need to know:

• Your lease is still in effect and remains in effect through the term of the lease.
• There are still laws on the books protecting you from harassment, and the City is enforcing those laws.
• We have put together an emergency hotline: Call 311 if you have any concerns or questions about your apartment.
• If your landlord is harassing you, withholding services, or trying to exploit any lapse in the rent regulation laws to get you to leave your apartment, you should call 311 immediately.

If you are a landlord:

• Please know that the City is committed to protecting New Yorkers who live in rent-regulated units.
• If you have any questions about what information you should be sharing with your tenants, please call 311.
• Tenant harassment laws are still in effect. Any lapse in the rent regulation laws is not an excuse to withhold heat, hot water, or other services — the City will enforce the housing code.

Meantime, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman warned landlords they must continue to provide lease renewals to rent stabilized tenants at least 90 days before their lease expiration date. In a press release, Schneiderman’s office wrote:

Any tenant who was entitled to a renewal lease under the law but was not offered one within the prescribed time frame, and whose tenancy is now being threatened, should contact the Attorney General’s office at 1 (800)771-7755 or New York State Homes and Community Renewal at (844) 736-8435.

Governor Andrew Cuomo, in the middle of a raging rent laws debate between the Assembly and Senate, who draft the rent laws, assured in a statement that “landlords should under no circumstances believe that their responsibility under the current rent stabilization program has expired.”

For now, there appears to be little in the way of progress in hammering out a rent law package. This infuriated Senator Gustavo Rivera, a northwest Bronx Democrat in a Republican-controlled state Senate, which passed a bill that reduced rent protections to tenants. Rivera called the Senate Republican’s actions “appalling.” He urged tenants in his district to call 311 should landlords begin any harassment tactics.

“Too many New Yorkers are already rent-burdened and struggling to remain in their homes because of failed housing policies,” said Rivera, in a statement. “It is simply not an option to allow our affordable housing stock to continue to be decimated and the housing security of New Yorkers threatened.”