LCI Races Slumlords To Property

Why are we having Government do the same thing that we already have a non profit doing? Doesn't NHS do the same thing? And have experience doing it?

Why should the city get a special price - a price that is likely far below what private citizens or even house repair/resell investors can get?

LCI could do way more for the City if they just enforced the laws they're supposed too. The house on 68 Mechanic street that just got condemned was only because the tenant Called LCI, even though it was cited for infractions a year earlier. Why no follow up. Take the 50K to hire another inspector and follow up on all the outstanding violations. ( or just answer the phone at LCI) That will do way more than rehabbing one house.

Also calling anyone that would buy that house a slumlord is nor fair

Here's a better idea: Let LCI get these great deals from Wells Fargo, at prices no private person can get - and sell to an investor/flipper who will fix them them, bring to code, enhance and improve - with the caveat that it be sold to an owner/occupier. The city increases the tax base; gets a blight off the list, doesn't compete with the private sector; and the investor/flipper still makes money.

Homeowners who try to buy a dilapidated property have to pay cash; then they have to a HUD loan to fix it up. An investor will come in, fix it - and the appraised value will support a standard mortgage.

Yeah, try calling any city dept. on the phone.

LCI needs to get back to its core function and do a better job of enforcement. It ought to publish publicly its key performance indicators (KPIs) so the public can gauge its workload and performance. I will FOIA the info.

Having said this, I do support the CITY , not LCI, buying certain properties to make sure the properties are put to good use. In this case LCI should find a third party to rehab and put the property in the hands of a homeowner and back on the tax rolls. LCI should NOT be in the construction business. Flip it with a guarantee, and get out of the way.

The City should have done this with the old Hallocks building in Westville. Doing so would have kept a prime property on the tax rolls and reinvigorated Westville. Instead, Church of Scientology has left the building dormant and off the tax rolls for 12 years.

By way of example. Milford bought the old jai alai property to keep it from being bought by a non-profit and falling off the tax rolls.


On a related note, Our New Haven has initiated a project to shine a light and bring pressure (legally, of course) on the slumlords (many of whom live comfortably out of town) who are destroying our neighborhoods. If you have a property you would like to bring to our attention, please email me directly at [email protected]


Dennis Serfilippi
https://www.ournewhaven.org/

Who might bid on this house, were it auctioned? NHI gives us an idea here:
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/saturdays_auction/
Small people trying, literally, to build some capital, as well as provide for themselves. Under NHI's leftist ideology, they are slumlords. So, government control, which keeps the property off the tax rolls and allows the city to make another private sale to an insiders, again depriving the city of revenue, is a good thing.
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/houses/
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/habitat_houses_get_lci_board_ok/

LCI is being proactive in a huge way to try and stabilize communities. Which I believe is paramount to their task. So what's with the brouhaha?

If one of these houses were adjacent to anyone of you complaining, and a prospective buyer wanted to purchase it and turn it over to make a profit by creating rental units instead of homeownership, rather than opine, you would be applauding.

Be fair about something going on in the city that you love (?).

we already have an organization that does this

https://nhsofnewhaven.org/

Why in the world do we have department that cannot even do its own job now branching out into an area were it had no skills and for which it is not chartered? What's next? The department of sanitation fighting fires in their spare time? Maybe have alders focus on traffic control?

If LCI can't be competent at code enforcement, just disband the department (and save the city a few dollars) - don't give them other projects.

LCI cannot accomplish its own goals as stated on their website. Why would we allow this? If the board of alders approve this they need to be voted out!!

Email or call your alder person and have them explain how this makes sense !
https://www.newhavenct.gov/gov/depts/alders/list.htm

@ Lookout--- well said, my friend. LCI has pressure put on it by politicos to smack some things and look away from others. Until officials' hands are untied; don't expect LCI to be any better than a slulmlord or shudder a Housing Authority.