Callling it a major victory for tenants across the city, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn praised Justice Eileen A. Rakower of the NYS Supreme Court for upholding the Safe Housing Act against legal challenge by a landlord.
“Under the Safe Housing Act, the city identifies buildings with the worst housing code violations and targets them for aggressive inspection and comprehensive repairs,” she wrote in a published statement. “If building owners do not make the necessary repairs and correct the underlying conditions, HPD [the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development] steps in to fix the violations and charges owners for the cost of the work.”
Quinn also thanked Council Members Letitia James, Erik Martin Dilan, Gale Brewer and other council colleagues “for working so diligently to pass this important legislation.”
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