Illegal Housing Crackdown in Quincy Massachusetts Yielding Positive Results
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A crackdown on illegal housing units in Quincy is occurring after a fire killed a father and his 2 sons. The crackdown has inspected 200 sites and has forced many of the tenants to find legal housing.
Growing up in Long Island with it’s high property taxes and limited housing options I saw many illegal apartments in basements or attics of homes. The underground economy in housing has been a part of the northeast’s history.
But in a weak housing market, bringing the housing criteria up to code and into the public is good for everyone. The risks that people that have illegal rentals take for lawsuits in this litigious society is insane. By cleaning up the illegal housing market will make everyone safer and improve the real estate market in these regions.
Quincy residents, meanwhile, have deluged city officials with reports of illegal housing, and a city task force created two years ago to investigate illegal rooming houses has been investigating all reports of unlicensed dwellings, from basement apartments to built-out ga rages to rooming houses serving more than the permitted number of tenants.
As of April 30, the task force has made 180 inspections since the fire, Duca said. Seventy have been identified as unlicensed and were posted to vacate, of which 52 are being resolved or have already been resolved by physical changes to illegal units to prevent them from being used as separate housing.
About half of the cases – 96 – remain open. Inspectors have gone to court with complaints of unlicensed housing in many of these. Forty-five cases are in court, Duca said, with 28 scheduled to be heard later this month at Quincy District Court. The Boston Globe.
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Comment by Jeff on 14 May 2009:
It’s good to see that some possible good came out of such a tragedy. It is a benefit of society to clean up the codes in this market.