I wonder if people realize that this is (like all economic issues) a matter of trade-offs?
We have made it illegal to be a “slum lord”.
We have made it illegal to live in a “substandard apartment”.
We pat ourselves on the back because we are “protecting the poor and vulnerable”.
Then we complain that there is a tremendous housing shortage, and the housing that is there, costs $5000 a month.
These things are connected, you know.
Commissioner Adolfo Carrión
Probably the most appropriate named bureaucrat ever: carrion.
is it his apartments, or the people living in them?
I mean, its 170th street, after all.
Doesn’t the New York City Housing Authority have a problem with mold, roaches, rats, etc. When I read the headline I thought it was about the NYCHA.
Pests are often the fault of tenants. You cannot get rid of roaches and mice if you do not first get rid of their food source.
He’ll be okay, his last name isn’t Trump.
No excuse for non-maintenance of properties, BUT...
It’s not the landlord who dumps trash in the halls or the alleys, graffitis surfaces, fails to clean up kitchens (attracting roaches and mice), brings in bedbugs, etc.
Here’s the problem: the tenants live like, well put it this way, the property is destroyed when the tenants are done living in it. What is a landlord to do?
I cannot say for how much of this the landlord is at fault or not. But I can say that in NY the landlord is always at fault according to the law. The Tenants are never responsible for anything. They could take a hammer and break a window and then call the health department and the landlord would be legally threatened or charged.
Oh Heeb Shalom?
Like a caricature.
Too funny !
Oh don’t go and get bent out of shape. It’s an observation of a very funny circumstance.
Nothing like super-sized fines to fund government operations.
If these building have lead paint, then they are very old. NY City limits the rents while requiring expensive remediation. As for the roaches, they are in almost all NY City apartment buildings.
When we were shopping for our first rental, we visited 2 very old 1920’s duplex’s on an acre which included 4 1960’s single wide mobile homes. I commented to my broker these are slummy. He responded, slumlords make alot of money, Diana.
We bought them cheap, have had them for over 20 years, huge cash cow, renters love the cheap rent.
No question he’s a lousy landlord; but consider some of his pig tenants who are slobs and don’t help in their own situations.
“Daniel?”