The lobby and community room should not be closed to all tenants at night because a few tenants have created problems. Ban the problem tenants, and restore full access to everyone else. Access to common areas of the building is a (legal) right, not a privilege, but tenants are also entitled to peaceful and quiet enjoyment of the premises. Problem tenants should have their public behavior restricted – rather than restricting non-offending tenants. Certain problem tenants drink publicly in the lobby and community room on a regular basis, and then become loud and belligerent toward other tenants who are minding their own business.  This behavior is tolerated by management and staff, despite the fact that they make other tenants extremely uncomfortable. They “perform” on camera for hours on end, and the lobby staff has to be aware of it because the activity is so loud. Why is this tolerated? It wouldn’t be in any other building. Management seems to favor tenants with severe drug and alcohol problems, or at least turn a blind eye toward negative public behavior. The alleged “mandatory,” building-wide room inspections on a monthly basis are illegal and invasive. Kenmore Hall is NOT a shelter or assisted-living institution; it’s an S.R.O. Tenants here are protected by rent stabilization laws. Our leases are legal contracts that provide us with rights and protections according to federal, state and city real estate laws. H.S.I. can put anything they want to in writing, or agree to make an appointment, but that doesn’t take priority over law, and tenants have the right to question and contest arbitrary regulations. Why does the Clinical Director seem to think that it’s acceptable to assume that all tenants in the building are in “programs”? That’s a form of profiling, and it’s extremely offensive. Some tenants are here because they have larger issues (alcoholism, drug addiction, mental illness, incarceration) that aggravate poverty. Some other tenants actually have jobs, though, and others are merely poor and trying to put their lives back together. Not all of us have the kind of problems/issues that require participation in a “program.” HOWEVER, some of the more problematic tenants, who disrupt life on a regular basis for everyone else, aren’t in programs of any sort and appear to need them – if not to actually help them overcome their problems/issues, then to at least help them learn to respond appropriately to the kind of social cues that would make life easier for the rest of us (for instance, leaving a common area when everyone else there is telling them that nobody wants to listen to their drunken rants or be harassed). Even if it’s not possible to compel someone to participate in a program if they have substance abuse problems, can’t legal measures be taken if they persistently abuse drugs or alcohol in public and disturb other tenants’ right to peaceful use of common areas?