Where will tenants live when the rent goes up?
Once again, Bill Agapion has supplied the requisite villainy to sustain a multipage morality play in your July 27 edition, “Fixing the cracks.” I have read the Amanda Lehmert story, the Lorraine Ahearn column, and the editorial.
The writer of the editorial, “Rental program works,” seemed unaware of the acknowledgements by both Lehmert and Ahearn that the drop in the number of code violations might not have been entirely attributable to RUCO. Market forces, they conceded, might have had something to do with it.
In the wake of the regulatory crackdown, a Park Place apartment must generate $739 per month to turn a profit. But what of the fate of the tenant who was living there when Park Place was Brookfield Court, and the monthly rent was $499?
In one material respect, the legal landscape has not changed. There still is no law forcing anybody to do business with Agapion or any of the other landlords you find objectionable.
Barney W. Hill
Thomasville
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