City’s Dyker Heights vacate order sign of progress, leaders say
The latest city crackdown on a suspected illegally converted home in Dyker Heights highlighted the need for the city and state to continue to take strong measures against greedy landlords seeking to cram large numbers of tenants into small living spaces, according to community leaders.
The raid was also a sign of progress in the battle against illegal home conversions, leaders said.
Illegal home conversions take place when a property owner subdivides a two-family or three-family home into multiple units, in some cases as small as a single room, to rent them to tenants.