The New York City Housing Agency was created to enforce the housing code in the early 1970s. "The City Hall had sent 800 inspectors and supervisors to roam the city in search of violations. It was a heady time for those who believe that the housing stock would be preserve through official vigilance." This, however, was not and has not been the case. The New York City Housing Agency is condemned to the realm of the slothful for its lack of awareness and indolence in matters that involves people's well-being and life. "Even housing agents admit that the oversight of troubled buildings in poor neighborhoods is ineffectual." Your sloth and indolence is so great that it has utterly failed its mission to ensure that the landlords provide tenants with housing that is safe and fit for human habitation. Also because of your sloth tens of thousands s of New Yorkers have been forced into cramp, squalid, illegal and even dangerous apartments. You have been placed in Purgatory and not in Hell because you have been trying to improve the current situation with the employment of more agents and the revamping of the current system. Source(s): Deborah Sontag, "New York City Housing Agency in Crisis", New York Times, Oct. 7, 1996 | Back to Dante's Purgatory |
The New York City Housing Agency was created to enforce the housing code in the early 1970s. "The City Hall had sent 800 inspectors and supervisors to roam the city in search of violations. It was a heady time for those who believe that the housing stock would be preserve through official vigilance." This, however, was not and has not been the case. The New York City Housing Agency is condemned to the realm of the slothful for its lack of awareness and indolence in matters that involves people's well-being and life. "Even housing agents admit that the oversight of troubled buildings in poor neighborhoods is ineffectual." Your sloth and indolence is so great that it has utterly failed its mission to ensure that the landlords provide tenants with housing that is safe and fit for human habitation. Also because of your sloth tens of thousands s of New Yorkers have been forced into cramp, squalid, illegal and even dangerous apartments. You have been placed in Purgatory and not in Hell because you have been trying to improve the current situation with the employment of more agents and the revamping of the current system.
Source(s): Deborah Sontag, "New York City Housing Agency in Crisis", New York Times, Oct. 7, 1996
