QUESTION
What assistance or help will HPD provide for residents who want to pursue a private right of action?
1:48:24
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HPD has not previously considered providing assistance for tenants pursuing a private right of action.
- HPD has other teams that help tenants organize and advocate
- Other agencies also provide assistance for tenants
- HPD could explore connecting these resources to buildings where a private right of action may be pursued
- HPD plans to be assertive and aggressive with its own enforcement tools
- A private right of action allows tenants to take legal action themselves without relying on government channels
Pierina Ana Sanchez
1:48:24
In in connection to the tenant right of a private right of action, is there is there assistance or help that HPD is going to be providing for residents that wanna pursue a private right of action.
Kim Darga
1:48:37
That is something that I certainly have not considered in the past.
1:48:42
I think, you know, we have other teams at the agency that oversee program is to help tenants organize and to advocate, as well as there's some other agencies that do that work.
1:48:54
So I think we could think about whether there's ways to connect those resources to these buildings.
Lucy Joffe
1:49:02
But I think part of that's why we have we do have the private right of action.
1:49:06
So it is something that a tenant for whatever reason if they do not want to be waiting on or working through government channels can avail themselves of.
1:49:14
But primarily, we're focused on handling it through our enforcement tools, and we plan to be assertive and aggressive with that.
1:49:21
Hopefully, most tenants won't be relying on that anyway.