City Launches Housing Initiative
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Above, Mayor Bloomberg discusses a new way the city plans to drive landlords to repair housing violations.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in the Bronx today to announce a new city housing initiative largely inspired by the Milbank properties the now infamous 10 neglected apartment buildings in the northwest Bronx that have been falling apart since foreclosure two years ago.
The Mayor made the announcement canada goose uk shop this morning at Our Lady Of Angels Church, on Webb Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, before a crowd of Milbank tenants and organizers from the canada goose uk black friday Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, who have been fighting for almost a year to draw the canada goose outlet sale city’s attention to the deteriorating buildings (here’s a )
The new «Proactive Preservation» program will essentially allow the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to more aggressively identify and inspect distressed properties, intervening to make repairs if necessary, in the hopes of preventing another Milbank scenario from taking Canada Goose online place.
«While the canada goose factory outlet work our housing inspectors do is very good, it can sometimes be too little, too late, or both,» Bloomberg said.
HPD will glean data like outstanding tax and water arrears, nearby foreclosures and notices from local officials and community group to flag trouble properties and then intervene to canada goose outlet uk sale stabilize them. canada goose store A newly formed 10 person «Proactive Enforcement Bureau» canada goose outlet online will perform «floor to cellar» inspections on buildings, according to a statement.
The city took similar action with Milbank’s buildings after HPD Commissioner Rafael Cestero took a tour of them in October.
«We’re very excited that they’re doing this,» said Gregory canada goose outlet shop Lobo Jost, Deputy Director at the University Neighborhood Housing Program. UNHP also developed an its, which draws on violations records, city liens, and other building information to zero in on distressed buildings much like the plan the city has proposed.
The Mayor also proposed a plan for City Council to grant the city the power to sell cheap canada goose Emergency Repair Program liens that exist on a property to a third party collector (see video above), who would then be in charge of collecting on the debt taxpayer money canada goose outlet from footing the bills for emergency repairs and possibly giving landlords more incentive to make repairs themselves.
While this all sounds like good news, many Milbank tenants say they still frustrated by conditions in their own apartments.
very divided on what the Mayor just said, said Rev. Peter Silva, who lives in a Milbank building on Aqueduct Avenue. He called the city initiative but said it did little to reassure him.
building falling apart, he said. understand they have a big job in front of them we been in foreclosure for two years already. The tenants are the ones suffering.
Local nonprofit housing developer Belmont Arthur Avenue LDC, under the receivership of its director Joseph Cicciu, was appointed by the courts Canada Goose sale to collect rent and make repairs on the Milbank buildings after foreclosure started, though tenants report the agency has not been effective in responding to their requests.
This fall, Cicciu told the Norwood News that just aren the dollars, to fix everything that wrong in the 10 properties, which canada goose outlet reviews have HPD’s latest count 5,000 violations among them.
HPD said this fall that the city had already begun making emergency repairs on the most hazardous violations. The agency is still pressing LNR Property LLC, the servicer to the loan canada goose outlet canada attached to the buildings, to sell them to a «responsible owner» ().
«How much longer will I have to live the way I’m living?» asked 72 Canada Goose Jackets year old Gloria Thomas, who also https://www.estrategias.de lives in Milbank’s Aqueduct Avenue apartments, where tenants say they often go days without heat.
«I’ve been in this building for 31 years,» Thomas said. «It used to be a beautiful building.»
Below, watch a clip of Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Sr., describe how the Milbank mess began what he calls a «criminal, criminal act,» on the part of predatory housing lenders.
Gregory Lobo JostJanuary 13, 2011 at 8:38:00 PM EST
Even though this initiative came out of the great organizing work around the Milbank buildings, it not going to specifically help those tenants. Instead, it designed to catch buildings in the earlier stages of distress before they get to the point of horrid canada goose outlet online uk living conditions like in the Milbank and Ocelot portfolios. While that canada goose outlet little consolation for the tenants in these buildings, it is a positive step by the City to help goose outlet canada prevent other properties from getting to that point hence the title of «Proactive Enforcement». Let hope the tactics at the City disposal will be as effective as possible.
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