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From November 2013 until January 2016, the NYC Housing, Preservation and Development agency, which is responsible for oversight of the city’s vast stock of multi-unit residential buildings, issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under the age of six, the age group most at risk of ingesting lead paint.
In 1920, New York adopted the Emergency Rent Laws, which effectively charged the courts of New York State with their administration. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The rent laws were the result of a series of widespread rent strikes in New York City from 1918 to 1920 that had been sparked by a World War 1 housing shortage, and the subsequent land ...
HPD is currently in the midst of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York initiative to create and preserve 300,000 units of affordable housing by 2026. By the end of 2021, the City of New York financed more than 200,000 affordable homes since 2014, breaking the all-time record previously set by former Mayor Ed Koch. [3]
A New York landlord has an arrest warrant with his name on it for racking up more than 30 housing code violations during a four-year-period for a Bronx apartment building he owns.
The Housing Committee's proposals for the development were held in 1959. At the hearing Jane Jacobs accused NYCHA of discriminating against the poor through displacement and embracing architecture oriented for middle-class need, advocating instead for retaining the social structure of the community by mixing low-rise buildings in with typical high-rises.
AOLIn New York, landlords are required to heat buildings to at least 68 degrees Fahrenheit when daytime temperatures fall below 55 outside. By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK -- When Tom Hunter and his ...
The New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) is the department of the New York City government that enforces the city's building codes and zoning regulations, issues building permits, licenses, registers and disciplines certain construction trades, responds to structural emergencies and inspects over 1,000,000 new and existing buildings.
Borough, Block, and Lot (also called Borough/Block/Lot or BBL) is the parcel number system used to identify each unit of real estate in New York City for numerous city purposes. It consists of three numbers, separated by slashes: the borough , which is 1 digit; the block number, which is up to 5 digits; and the lot number, which is up to 4 digits.