Council Member Sanchez on management company neglect across multiple developments

Jay Sanchez, followed by Councilmember Fedeus.

Thank you, Chair Lee, and thank you, Chair P.

Sanchez, for helping to put everything together today.

Howdy, everyone.

So a few questions.

So two Mitchell Lama developments in the South Bronx, Mins Plaza and OUB Houses.

Have numerous really hazardous violations.

And they're both run by the same management company.

So when a single manager across...

Shows a pattern of neglect across multiple of their portfolio projects.

What tools does HPD have to intervene at the management level rather than building by building?

So at a minimum, we would

bring in the property management firm to talk about the conditions, right?

Like I mentioned for Tracy Towers, we're bringing the property management firm in to discuss what exactly has happened in Tracy Towers and is it indicative across their entire portfolio.

We would be happy to call in the same property manager or whatever the property manager is at these two developments and have a conversation with them to do a much deeper dive than we have in the past.

Is there, so there's no automatic trigger or alert or notice that you get once a developer or a property owner receives a certain number of violations across a number of their portfolio projects?

So we have HPD's code enforcement team has, you know, there's the AEP program, there's 7A, underlying conditions program.

Mitchell Llamas are not exempt from those programs.

Okay.