Re:NYC housing court, created to protect tenants, has become...
by Regardsyjc on Monday May 21, 2018 @11:46PM
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The biggest problem I saw in Evicted were slum lords renting out homes that are legally unfit to live in because they were preying on the desperate...
There was a story later in the book about a slum lord's property that burned down because she cheaped out on fire detectors. Her tenant lost her baby but the slum lord walked away with even more money from insurance to buy 3 more properties.
The same slum lord took advantage of government housing incentives too by renting her dilapidated apartments at artificially higher rents to those lucky enough to be in a government program. Not to even mention how most of the tenants that are evicted can't even afford to literally get to the court house for the hearing.
There was a story later in the book about a slum lord's property that burned down because she cheaped out on fire detectors. Her tenant lost her baby but the slum lord walked away with even more money from insurance to buy 3 more properties.
The same slum lord took advantage of government housing incentives too by renting her dilapidated apartments at artificially higher rents to those lucky enough to be in a government program. Not to even mention how most of the tenants that are evicted can't even afford to literally get to the court house for the hearing.