Affordable Buyers in Bed-Stuy Say Buildings Are Shoddy
The Daily News has a story about how several homeowners who won an affordable housing lottery and then purchased new houses on Lexington Avenue in Bed-Stuy say their homes have a lot of faults, including “plumbing backups, lack of insulation, faulty heating, and leaking roofs.” The buyers moved into the houses in 2008 after waiting…
The Daily News has a story about how several homeowners who won an affordable housing lottery and then purchased new houses on Lexington Avenue in Bed-Stuy say their homes have a lot of faults, including “plumbing backups, lack of insulation, faulty heating, and leaking roofs.” The buyers moved into the houses in 2008 after waiting a couple more years than expected for construction to wrap because a site remediation was necessary. One of the owners is now suing the builder that partnered with HPD on the project, Delight Construction, because of the alleged shoddiness of his home. Meanwhile, the story suggests that there was shadiness involved in the entire development project, as now-indicted former HPD official Wendell Walters had asked the buyers to pay $10,000 more for the houses due to Delight’s cost overruns. Walters’ lawyer claims that Delight “was refusing to sell the houses without the additional money,” a charge that Delight calls “fictitious and outrageous.” Public records show that the houses, at 144-154 Lexington Avenue, sold for around $360,000 apiece.
Bed Stuy Homeowners Charge City and Developer Tried to Jack Up Price [NY Daily News]
bobmarvin, how is this not a Fedders building? because the AC holes don’t literally say Fedders? 😉
babs you’re an idiot.
There are tons of people who pay waaaaaaaaay below market rate in Brooklyn Heights. Are you nuts? That’s like saying there are not may people paying below market rate in the Upper West Side. It’s called Rent Control Babs. We have a bunch of those hangers on in my building. they pay next to nothing. of course their apartments look like something out of the “Honeymooners” but what they lack in renovations they more than make up for in COMPLAINTS. Poor victims of American Capitalism. etc etc.
Brooklyn Heights is one of the city’s hot spots of subsidized housing and related whining. Just FYI. You should get out and about more.
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Oh, and Merry Christmas to you nola on the dole
I swear, Stoner should send me a christmas gift for boosting his thread count so to speak.
Oh, and Merry Christmas to you nola on the dole
offensive?
My my, what thin skin.
Lots of people, especially those used to renting, especially those used to renting way below market rate, make complaining their full-time hobby. These are folks who are basically given a free ride and yet complain about the car’s suspension.
Don’t understand the contempt that most people have here for these home owners. As ur American dream fades quit the hate. There is corruption here but many bypass that to extoll ur hidden prejudices . It’s beyond me y it’s the powerless who r constantly being blame for all this structural . It’s so frustratin that I would not mind seein some of u get ur heads bashed in. We need an armed revolution in this country. That’s my honest feelings
the houses do look awfully cheaply built. Not even central air but rather thru-walls a.c.s.
MM. I completely agree with you. Buying a house is a huge step. The learning curve is usually pretty steep for first timers.
One of the things we have learned from this national housing crisis is that it may seem laudable to offer home ownership to families with very low incomes but it can backfire in a big way and leave them in a much worse position than before. Home ownership is expensive and it requires a big commitment especially in an over heated market like brownstone brooklyn.
I live in a fairly expensive and well-maintained cooperative and guess what? Our plumbing backs up and we get leaks.
The solution to these problems is to dig in our pockets and pay for their (seemingly continuous repair). It’s the way it is.
While $360,000 can indeed buy one nice house in many parts of the country (although no guarantee those will not leak either) in Brooklyn, it is an extraordinarily low price to pay for a brand-new house.
Think of the money they would have to shell out if the houses had old brownstone facades!