Uptown Flavor notes that the Daily News is tracking cases where the city's public housing falls too quickly into disrepair:
Most people know that homeownership is expensive. You pay for everything from the closing costs to water bills to fixing a leaky faucet. When the costs of repairs are directly connected to poor workmanship by the contractors then whose pocket should the money come out of?
As part of a continuing series in the Daily News, homes that were shoddily built using HPD subsidies are exposed. Some would shrug it off and say, “sell it and move on.” It’s not quite that simple for homeowners like Lt. Delgado from Harlem. Delgado has only owned his home for 3 years and he has suffered extensive water damage due to poor construction of the home. If he were to bail out now, the city would require him to pay back about $100,000 in subsidies.
This news item is like the NYC housing trifecta: gentrification, rent control/subsidized housing and the ineptitude (possible corruption?) of the city's administration.
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