Hellish Landlord Drawing Protest in the Slope
A three-story building at 152 Fourth Avenue between Douglass and Butler is drawing attention for the particularly negligence of its landlord, Gustav Rodriguez; another four buildings owned by Rodriguez have also drawn similar complaints. Among the complaints: Peeling paint, no heat and “an overwhelming stench of sewage in the halls.” The building had 40 tenants…
A three-story building at 152 Fourth Avenue between Douglass and Butler is drawing attention for the particularly negligence of its landlord, Gustav Rodriguez; another four buildings owned by Rodriguez have also drawn similar complaints. Among the complaints: Peeling paint, no heat and “an overwhelming stench of sewage in the halls.” The building had 40 tenants last year and now only 8 are left, prompting charges that the landlord is doing everything he can to rid the building of its rent-stabilized tenants so he can cash in on the Fourth Avenue boom that’s underway. A protest rally is scheduled for today outside the buildings.
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malymis, good point but people are protected against price gauging for gas. however, like I said I’m a big supporter for free markets so I understand where you’re coming from.
to stuy blkbuttrflie
You right it must be a balance
But if someone live in your house and you have no control over, it is a little to far don’t you agree?
Housing is commodity like gas or food and should be treated like that. When government starts to control it is usually no good, i know it from experience.
To liekiller
True
It is a law and Landlord hast to follow, no doubt. But it is a good law this is a real issue. In my opinion is wrong and unfair, we all are end up paying for someone cheep housing and it is not always people who need it the most.
Your free market apartment is more expensive because of this, unless you have rent stab and someone is paying for yours.
I find it very odd that whenever I see a story like this, the discussion rapidly turns into the pros and cons of rent stablization, or “move if you don’t like if we are not communists”. Such “arguments” have no bearing on whether the landlord is following the law, and are simply a crock. A landlord has obligations, by law, to the tenant, and the landlord must follow the law, if said landlord breaks that law, then that landlord should be placed in jail like any other lawbreaker.
When you are dealing with food, shelter and health and safety it is government role to ensure
that some level of basics is met or danger of breaking ‘social contract’.
Private property/ownership rights are not absolute and certain limits to these rights are enacted just as they are to individual rights.
If people/gov’t decide that ‘rent controls’, ‘zoning limits’, or whatever else is in the greater societal good than it has power to do so. Those are American values like it or not.
“low-endish paper” is a bit generous/incorrect. glorified tabloid would be more appropriate.
To Grandel
Maybe more sophisticated press understand the issue but in NY post and low-endish papers you can always read about evil landlords, big rats and poor tenants.
People have right to own property. It is core American idea. You own property but city bureaucrats and tenants will tell you what to do with it.
That is not American to me.
I grow up it communist country and we always look up at certain American values.
Rent stab was not one of it.
you make a compelling point but we don’t reap the benefits that landlords get for owning a building and its obvious that they exist because if that weren’t the case then they wouldn’t own the building in the first place. as far as I’m concerned you have to take the good with the bad, I don’t agree that the general public should help to bear the brunt of the backlash that landlords get. and what are these incentives that you speak of?