The standard of living may be deteriorating in the Bronx, according to housing experts, as tensions mount between landlords and tenants in the economic downturn. Jonathan Levy, deputy director of the housing unit of Legal Service NYC-Bronx and Gregory Lobo-Jost, deputy director of the University Neighborhood Housing Program, joined Bronx Talk’s Gary Axelbank to talk about affordable housing, rent stabilization, foreclosures and the ever-fraught issue of over-development. Both Levy and Lobo-Jost agreed that housing conditions and tenant-landlord relations are currently some of the worst they’ve seen in their professional careers, and that as unemployment climbs in the borough, residents are spending a greater percentage of their income on housing.
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