Blake Avenue residents say landlord’s repairs are shoddy

Residents
of The East New York Affordable Housing Project Blake Avenue Homes
say their landlord’s repairs are shoddy, and they are still stuck with
leaky roofs, failing boilers and no insulation. In 2005, the city
Department of Housing Preservation and Development ordered developer
Alex Arker to make drastically needed repairs to the project, which consists of 36 two-family homes. The city
said that it inspected the homes after the repairs were
made in 2005 and didn’t find “particularly shoddy workmanship or
substandard materials,” adding that the agency has not received
complaints from residents in Arker’s other developments. The residents
say nothing has changed in the building, and some have put their own
money into repairing their homes.

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