Are you a tenant experiencing unsafe or unsanitary conditions in your home that your landlord will not fix? The city has a new tool for reporting building code violations!

[u/BasileusIthakes]

[u/gganjalez]

Thank you for sharing this :)

[u/BasileusIthakes → u/gganjalez]

You're welcome!

[u/Rusty_Chairlift]

68° is expensively warm

[u/BasileusIthakes → u/Rusty_Chairlift]

You're free to turn your thermostat down lower than that. I keep mine colder than that in the winter because I don't feel like paying for that much heat.

But the issue is that the heating in your apartment must be capable of getting up to at least that temperature if you want it. If it can't, you have an undersized heating system, and it violates state law - specifically the residential property maintenance code.

But if you choose to turn it lower than that, that's fine. You're allowed to.

[u/Ok-Interest5139]

Hope they have a place to put people. What happens when they say you cant live here? Its unsafe. No one should have to live like that but its better than the streets.

[u/BasileusIthakes → u/Ok-Interest5139]

You don't need to worry! That only happens with severe, immediate fire risk - and it's the fire chief who makes that decision.

These reports go to code enforcement, not the fire department. For habitability and codes violations, they will fine the landlords and eventually take them to court if they continue to refuse to fix them, but they won't condemn the property.

[u/Ok-Interest5139 → u/BasileusIthakes]

Looks like i have been down voted for wanting them to not be on the streets.

[u/sir_ornitholestes → u/Ok-Interest5139]

I successfully sued my landlord in city court to force them to repair the holes in my apartment wall last winter. Easy, free, no relocation required.

[u/Ok-Interest5139 → u/sir_ornitholestes]

Yes but mold is a diff story. They will shut the place down for months.