AGENCY TESTIMONY
HPD's role in ensuring housing safety
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Santiago outlines HPD's primary responsibilities and actions taken to ensure safe housing in New York City. The agency's work encompasses a wide range of activities aimed at maintaining health and safety standards in residential buildings.
- HPD responds to hundreds of thousands of complaints and conducts inspections for various health and safety issues.
- Inspectors proactively check for 10 specific health and safety issues during every inspection.
- The agency takes legal action in housing court, performs emergency repairs, and provides education to landlords and tenants.
- HPD implements enhanced enforcement against landlords whose buildings significantly fail to meet safety standards.
AnnMarie Santiago
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HPD's primary enforcement goal each and every day is to ensure that tenants live in safe housing that complies with New York City and New York state housing codes.
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Our housing inspectors respond to hundreds of thousands of complaints inspecting for health and safety issues, including potentially life threatening conditions such as a lack of heat or electricity.
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On every inspection, a housing inspector proactively checks for 10 health and safety issues, which left unaddressed, can expose tenants particularly children to serious risk of death or injury, including missing or improperly installed window guards, non functioning or missing self closing doors, and missing or defective smoke detectors.
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We dedicate resources to housing court actions both with and on behalf of tenants.
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Emergency repairs when landlords fail to fulfill their responsibilities to correct the most immediately hazardous conditions and landlord and tenant education.
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We invest heavily in enhanced enforcement against buildings against landlords whose buildings grossly fail to meet the standards our city has set for safe and healthy housing.
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As part of our inspection work, HPD responds to complaints regarding defective radiators.
