Private Management Promised to Fix Public Housing, Yet Hundreds of Violations Linger

Private Management Promised to Fix Public Housing, Yet Hundreds of Violations Linger

When a New York City landlord fails to address serious housing code violations, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) is forced to step in. Using taxpayer dollars, HPD hires a contractor to do the job the landlord didn’t, then bills the landlord for the work — plus fees. Such has been the case again and again at 807 Schenck Ave. in East New York, Brooklyn. Nine times in the last three years, HPD had to hire vendors to do m…