Posted on 12/09/2013 5:15:37 AM PST by shoff
Public housing tenant Concetta Passione turned 100 Saturday. She got a beautiful birthday cake, and a big party with her two sons. Plus, an eviction notice from NYCHA. The city Housing Authority claims she is not the true tenant of a one-bedroom in Rutgers Houses on the Lower East Side, though she insists she has lived there since 1964. Convinced that she has secretly resided for years in Italy and that her 73-year-old son, Sebastian, unlawfully moved into her apartment, NYCHA sent her a “breach of rules” notice on Nov. 1 to terminate her lease. She admits she takes trips to Italy every year but says her home is in the Rutgers Houses, where she pays her $219-a-month rent on time. Her son, she says, is there to help her out.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nycha-100-year-old-granny-article-1.1541167#ixzz2mytavpwY
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1) She pays $219 a month for a one bedroom in an area that commands $2,000 a month.
2) Her rent is based upon her income from SS not from either son who lived with her, one retired military the other an “interpreter” for SSI.
3) Though she is in low income housing she regularly jets off to Italy,
4) They want to evict her for her sons living there and the claim she only uses the apartment herself around the holidays. (To see her sons?)
5) Is her place in Italy paid for by Italian taxpayers?
6) Has been in America over 60 years but still no speaka da English.
7) If America stopped all forms of welfare how many countries economies would fail?
during WW 2 the city of NY implemented the Marxist rent control.
it is a common practice to pass these apartments around.
let her keep it at the $2000 a month.
Better to put the effort towards weaning the 20 somethings off of gov't welfare handouts.
I work for landlord tenant lawyer and I live on the Lower East Side/East Village. Philosophically I understand the opponents to rent stabilization. At this point I can’t say who is right because it is definitely a sympathy piece by the Daily News (my grand dad and uncle worked there). Technically this lady can spend up to six months visited wherever or whoever. This is called a primary residence issue. She will have what they call an administrative hearing by NYCHA where she will have to prove her case and if she feels she was unjustly judged by the administrative hearing she goes to court and files an Article 78 proceeding. All the laws are in place for this lady to get a fair shake. The way things are in NY rent stabilization is fazing out bit by bit as more and more apartments become deregulated. NYCHA housing has its own regulations.
in many areas in NYC rent control is what eventually caused the middle class to flee for their veritable lives to the Burbs. the neighborhoods deteriorated as the slime of NY moved into what had been the better neighborhoods.
Spot on, but that story won’t catch a headline.
NYC’s zoning and regulatory environment are creating the problem in the first place. Rent control simply worsened it. Is Deblasio going to maintain the pace or reverse it and go back to 1971 New York?
Why should the taxpayers pick up the other $1781 for her second home? Even if it is her first “home” she doesn’t have squatter rights because she ripped off the system for so long.
Brooklyn dave do you have a vacation home in Europe? She does. If we agree to public housing shouldn’t it be based on need and not on age? I would also tend to dispute your statement that the courts are fair to renters. Just look at her. She admits she jets off to Europe at least once a year, she has an overpaid government worker son also living in the apartment whose income is not figured into her rent even the other son’s pension was not calculated into her rent. You might say that is the fault of the overpaid government workers waiting two years to process the sons application for change but what’s their hurry it is not their money paying her rent.
This is not rent control.
This is a public housing project.
I would like to clarify a point.
Her apartment is not a rent controlled apartment. The city’s apartment she rents is public housing.
Rent control is centralized government control of the amount private landlords can increase the rent each year. Some unelected board decides how much rents are allowed to go up each year. When an apartment becomes empty the landlord can charge what the market will bear. This means that when you rent from a private apartment house for $2,000 a month you are subsidizing the rent of all the others before you. This is not in every apartment in NY. But there are horror stories of someone paying $600 for a six bedroom and their neighbor paying $2,500 for a studio. What a surprise that central planning causes apartment shortages.
This women lives in public housing, the projects if you will. It is not a bad area and your rent has nothing to do with the cost for the city to run. It is based on your income and the difference is made up from the middle class “rich” and above. The idea was like welfare to give a helping hand until you could afford to make it on your own. Like welfare it has now become a right. Just look at the Son working on his second pension from the city wanting to move into an apartment designed for the poor.
That’s the point with the sons—inheriting rent control.
I want to care what goes on in enemy territory Ijust don’t. :-)
Unfortunately these people residing in “enemy territory “ get to vote for your president.
Too bad we can’t do somwthing about that. :-)
Even a worse leftist paradigm.
Just look at these articles like the resistance in France. Behind enemy lines. It should remind you to be diligent in defending your rights in Georgia.
They must have had to dig high and low to find an ITALIAN lady abusing the system. I am sure the percentage of Italian women doing this is extremely high as opposed to other immigrants who might jet off to, say, Mexico, Puerto Rico, or El Salvador once or twice a year.
is her son a caregiver?
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