In the upside-down world of housing violations, city inspectors can flag a landlord for cracked paint and a broken tile while ignoring a dryer the tenant illegally connected to the gas line with a plastic pipe. Department of Housing Preservation and Development violations are a hot-button issue for the Mamdani administration, which points to them as proof of owners’ evilness. But landlords view them as ammunition in a system weaponized against them. Housing violations typically don’t come with a fine, but are “intended to drive repairs,” said Howard Slatkin, executive director of the Citizens Housing and Planning Council and a […]

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