Finding an affordable place is one problem, keeping it another
In the past five or so years, Aissa Aggoune has received four evictions from his landlord, and each time he’s disputed them and won. The most recent eviction, posted to the door of his apartment late last year, was given because the landlord said that he was subletting his apartment. At an arbitration hearing, he proved that he continued to live in the suite – as he had for 17 years – but he’d taken in a roommate to help pay the bills.
The landlord was ordered to repair the ventilation and compensate the tenants. According to the City, “a report was completed listing a number of deficiencies, which were corrected in the manner most appropriate to achieve compliance given the age of the building.” Mr. Aggoune has a spectacular view from his apartment, where he pays close to $1,400. If he were to move out, he says it would rent for a market rate of $2,800. He can’t afford that, and he can’t uproot his son and work and leave the city.
“It’s clear that’s not enough. Yes, they are understaffed and I think it’s more of a dissuasion weapon: ‘Hey we will come after you.’ But they have not strongly gone after anybody. They have imposed some fines.” “Complaints to the Compliance and Enforcement Unit have steadily increased each year since the unit became operational,” Mr. McGregor said in an e-mail.
by author Henry Gomory, showed that the larger the landlord, the more potential for evictions. Mr. Gomory looked at the numbers of eviction filed by large landlords versus small landlords in Boston, where large landlords made up less than 1 per cent of apartment owners but owned more than one-third of all apartment units.
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