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Council Member Áviles probes HPD's litigation thresholds and timelines
1:04:49
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Council Member Alexa Áviles asks detailed follow-up questions about HPD's criteria and timelines for initiating litigation against unresponsive landlords.
- Inquires about the threshold used to decide on litigation
- Questions how HPD determines owner responsiveness
- Asks about the typical timeline before HPD starts the litigation process
Alexa Áviles
1:04:49
And what is the threshold that's being used to decide whether or not you're gonna litigate an issue?
AnnMarie Santiago
1:04:55
Generally, it's the responsiveness of the owner and and the the numbers of households that we're serving.
Alexa Áviles
1:05:03
How do you determine responsiveness?
1:05:06
Like, feels like that could be all over the place.
AnnMarie Santiago
1:05:09
Yeah.
1:05:09
Well, we have community coordinators who reach out to owners.
1:05:13
We do inspections at buildings to see if work is moving forward or not.
1:05:18
And again, if there are specific examples, we can see if that is a building that we are are monitoring.
Alexa Áviles
1:05:24
And and how long is you said it takes time.
1:05:26
Obviously, everything with courts take time.
1:05:28
What are we talking about in terms of how long to before HPD would start a litigation process?
AnnMarie Santiago
1:05:35
It depends on, again, how quickly the owner is moving, how much damage there is to the building, whether the owner is claiming complicating factors, insurance issues, whether they filed with the Department of Buildings to show that they're moving forward.
1:05:50
It really depends on the extent of the damage and what was necessary.