HPD Code Enforcement Study

• Landlords Falsified 40,000 Corrections Of Housing Code Violations; (news release)
  HPD's Failure To Act Undermines Code Enforcement

• NYC Comptroller's Audit of HPD Code Enforcement (complete audit)

• December 5, 1994 -- HPD releases violation statistics
• January 6, 1995 -- Comptroller tells HPD of "breakdown" of housing code violation process
• January 19, 1995 -- HPD defends violation system
• February 23, 1995 -- Comptroller "troubled" by HPD's defensiveness
• February 24, 1995 -- Comptroller refers landlord false certifications to Manhattan D. A.
• June 19, 1995 -- Comptroller reveals HPD reinspections ignore certain neighborhoods

• Notice of Violations

  • Notice of Violations instruction sheet
  • Certification of Correction of Violation(s)
  • Notice of Violation (NOV) example (page 1, gif image)
  • Inspection Order example (page 2, gif image)

• Landlords Falsifying Certification of Violation Removal
• Examples Of Violations that the Landlord Falsely Claimed as Fixed
• HPD reinspection by Neighborhood
• People's Firehouse Bulletin: HPD Commissioner Takes Issue With Hevesi/Leichter Study
• People's Firehouse Bulletin: Editorial Reply to HPD's Commissioner putting the issue in proper perspective