This pandemic has been troubling Americans on multiple levels. There is the fear of catching the virus especially if you are in your later years or have a compromised immune system, and this is a very valid concern. But aside from health concerns, there is the financial worry. Many Americans struggled to find or keep work as lockdowns and safety guidelines rewrote what is normal. Money was an issue for everyone renters and landlords alike but Liberal leaders thought they had the best idea in eviction moratoriums shielding the tenant while leaving the landlord to cover the cost in the meantime. But what happens when the landlord can’t pay his bills because the government was protecting his tenants.
“David Howson, now 88, has long used rental income from his 10-unit building at 9 West 129th St. to help pay for the co-op apartment in Inwood where he’s lived for decades. Now, out more than $40,000 and suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, he’s had trouble paying his own maintenance charges and is himself facing the boot, his family claims.
The alleged deadbeats in Howson’s building will get another break, courtesy of Albany’s largesse. The legislature is expected to pass a new eviction moratorium that will keep wayward tenants in their apartments until at least May 2021.
“We have nothing. We are completely destitute,” daughter Jessica Howson, who manages her father’s affairs, told The Post.”
“Howson says selling the building has proved impossible too, as potential buyers flee, due to the city’s draconian rent-stabilization rules and the tenants they would inherit.”
“We need help,” Howson said. “If Citibank is not giving me a break with my mortgage, why should anyone else live rent free?”
Howson has tried suing and there was a settlement but nothing has been paid. At the rate things are going David Howson is going to lose his home all because some tenants are taking advantage of these pandemic laws. Just another example of the “great” leadership skills in New York.
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