More Evictions at Troubled PLG Homeless Shelter at 60 Clarkson Avenue

Conditions at a privately owned apartment building offering emergency housing to homeless families in Prospect Lefferts Gardens have been deplorable for years. Nonetheless, families living at 60 Clarkson Avenue were alarmed to receive eviction notices from the landlord in July. After a flurry of media attention, the evictions were stayed, but now they’re coming again.

Some 15 families Monday received eviction notices not from the landlord, but from the Department of Homeless Services, according to Gothamist.

Not only will longtime tenants be forced to move from 60 Clarkson without explanation, but conditions remain dilapidated and infested. The state of the building is so bad, The Legal Aid Society may potentially sue on tenants’ behalf, Gothamist reported.

Local blog The Q at Parkside lauded the Times for bringing attention to 60 Clarkson with an August article. But it would seem the problems of the cluster-housing program run deep and are not easy to solve.

[Source: Gothamist]

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