Some tenants at Kenmore Hall have been asking management to make repairs to their apartments (particularly remediation of mold infestations) for over 6 months, but management has been trying a variety of tactics to get out of doing the job properly:

• Blaming the tenants and calling them hoarders (although they're NOT hoarders, and what does that have to do with mold growing in the building's walls anyway?)
• Telling inspectors that the tenant won't let building management or maintenance workers into the room to make repairs
• Management tells maintenance to scrub the walls and do a paint job - this is not the right way to take care of mold at all

H.S.I. and Kenmore Associates may be in good company, though; they're like hundreds of other slumlords across the city who are more concerned about the money in their pockets than the quality of life for their tenants. Click on the titles of articles below for similar situations:

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Daily News article about slumlords who make city pay for repairs

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