Posted on 01/12/2019 4:47:31 PM PST by Twotone
Fresh off proposing yesterday that private employers be required to provide their workers with 10 days of paid vacation, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio set his sights on a new target: property owners.
During his State of the City Address, delivered Thursday, de Blasio warned that the city will take action against landlord abuse, even if that means seizing private property.
"When a landlord tries to push out a tenant by making their home unlivable, a team of inspectors and law enforcement agents will be on the ground in time to stop it," the mayor said. If fines and penalties don't do the trick, then "we will seize their buildings, and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve," he added.
But surely city officials won't have the time to find and punish each one of the city's bad landlords, right? Wrong. That's because de Blasio is creating a new agency devoted solely to landlord abuse: the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants.
"The city's worst landlords will have a new sheriff to fear," de Blasio said, calling the new agency (which he created on the spot by signing an executive order) a "new arm of city government that will root out the worst landlord abuse."
As the New York Daily News notes, the city already has an Office of Tenant Advocate. However, it has not yet been funded, according to the Progressive Caucus of the New York City Council.
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This was 45 YEARS ago!
we will seize their buildings, and we will put them in the hands of a community nonprofit that will treat tenants with the respect they deserve
In other words, we will take buildings from the proper owner and give them to a Communist affiliated and approved owner. Sounds like something a guy like Castro might do.
My mistake. I thought there was enough sarcasm dripping from my comment that it would leave a puddle.
Excellent questions?
The only constant is that everything always changes. What goes up must come down. And vice-versa.
An up and coming Detroit bodes well for my old stomping grounds near the Huron Forest.
“An up and coming Detroit bodes well for my old stomping grounds near the Huron Forest.”
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Last night,after seeing your post I checked out some of the properties available in the area——dirt cheap.
What a chance for some long-term investing.
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