NEW YORK—New Yorkers looking for an apartment to rent on Craig’s List can now follow a link to “NYC’s Worst Landlord Watchlist” courtesy of Public Advocate Bill de Blasio.
Standing in front of a rundown Bronx apartment building on Monday, de Blasio introduced his eight-point housing plan that will hold the city’s worst landlords accountable for repairing their buildings.
The latest safer-housing initiatives will bar chronically bad landlords from receiving taxpayers funded subsidies and organize tenants in dilapidated buildings to ensure that landlords make repairs.
“This plan will help to change things. We don’t want to reward a bad landlord. We have proposals and legislations here that will close that loophole and stop giving subsidies to bad landlords,” said de Blasio.
The initiative will also ensure that a bad landlord cannot lease one of his or her buildings to a city agency and profit, said de Blasio.
Pointing to the dilapidated building on 197th Street, between Bainbridge Avenue and Pond Place, de Blasio stated that Joshua Neustein owned it.
Neustein, who also owns 11 other buildings was listed on their watchlist, was the third worst landlord on the list, with 180 serious Class B and C violations, stated de Blasio.
“Some of these uncorrected violations go all the way back to 1986,” said de Blasio. “Rodents, bed bugs, crumpling roof and ceilings, leaks, no heating, and no hot water. … A list of things that no tenant in New York City should have to live with.”
He pointed that currently Neustein profits from the Advantage subsidy program that helps to provide homes for the homeless.
Standing in front of a rundown Bronx apartment building on Monday, de Blasio introduced his eight-point housing plan that will hold the city’s worst landlords accountable for repairing their buildings.
The latest safer-housing initiatives will bar chronically bad landlords from receiving taxpayers funded subsidies and organize tenants in dilapidated buildings to ensure that landlords make repairs.
“This plan will help to change things. We don’t want to reward a bad landlord. We have proposals and legislations here that will close that loophole and stop giving subsidies to bad landlords,” said de Blasio.
The initiative will also ensure that a bad landlord cannot lease one of his or her buildings to a city agency and profit, said de Blasio.
Pointing to the dilapidated building on 197th Street, between Bainbridge Avenue and Pond Place, de Blasio stated that Joshua Neustein owned it.
Neustein, who also owns 11 other buildings was listed on their watchlist, was the third worst landlord on the list, with 180 serious Class B and C violations, stated de Blasio.
“Some of these uncorrected violations go all the way back to 1986,” said de Blasio. “Rodents, bed bugs, crumpling roof and ceilings, leaks, no heating, and no hot water. … A list of things that no tenant in New York City should have to live with.”
He pointed that currently Neustein profits from the Advantage subsidy program that helps to provide homes for the homeless.
