A New York City landlord named the worst in the city by the Public Advocate’s office is at Rikers after allegedly failing to perform hundreds of court-ordered repairs on some Manhattan properties he owns.
You raise an excellent point about capability as a person to whom others are reliant upon. Landlords would do well to have a definition of housing to measure their properties against. If a landlord doesn’t have the property up to standard within X days of issue of complaint, the property is forfeit and becomes public and the state can make the changes.
Landlords who do their job and make living in their properties not a nightmare are eligible for a tip.
Not really, in most places in the US. Housing departments are underfunded in many states and municipalities, mostly so crooked property companies can get away with renting unsafe and unsanitary properties or extorting tenants. Sure, they’ll usually take action against the biggest offenders after enough people complain, but exercising tenant rights (if indeed you have any, tenant rights vary state to state, county to county and sometimes city to city) is very hard and costly in many places.
Not all rights are won through violence. In Australia, the union movement has managed to secure the following through peaceful means, specifically through lobbying, striking and peaceful protest:
40 hour work week; overtime for hours worked beyond this
sick leave and annual leave
maternity and paternity leave
Medicare, our semi-universal public healthcare
enforceable safety standards at work
compensation for injury at work
our ‘award’-based system of minimum pay and conditions per field
federally mandated superannuation (forced retirement saving paid by your employer, tax free)
protections against unfair dismissal
While not all rights are gained through violence all rights are limited and revoked by violence, in particular state-sponsored violence.
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You raise an excellent point about capability as a person to whom others are reliant upon. Landlords would do well to have a definition of housing to measure their properties against. If a landlord doesn’t have the property up to standard within X days of issue of complaint, the property is forfeit and becomes public and the state can make the changes.
Landlords who do their job and make living in their properties not a nightmare are eligible for a tip.
Are there not tenancy bureaus where you live that enforce (or y’know, give lip service) to housing standards?
Not really, in most places in the US. Housing departments are underfunded in many states and municipalities, mostly so crooked property companies can get away with renting unsafe and unsanitary properties or extorting tenants. Sure, they’ll usually take action against the biggest offenders after enough people complain, but exercising tenant rights (if indeed you have any, tenant rights vary state to state, county to county and sometimes city to city) is very hard and costly in many places.
I’m going to assume this was a call fo violence and the chicken shit mods deleted it.
All rights are won through violence, and we’ve lost for the last 100 years.
Not all rights are won through violence. In Australia, the union movement has managed to secure the following through peaceful means, specifically through lobbying, striking and peaceful protest:
While not all rights are gained through violence all rights are limited and revoked by violence, in particular state-sponsored violence.