Posted on May 18, 2016 by Nicole Schubert and Jennifer Fermino in New York Daily News New York Daily News, By Nicole Schubert and Jennifer Fermino The city is taking legal action against seven slumlords whose rat-infested Bronx and Brooklyn properties house dozens of homeless families, as well as hundreds of New Yorkers too poor to move into better buildings. Mayor de Blasio will announce the court actions Wednesday. The seven buildings house about 1,000 people, including 107 homeless who have been placed there by the city in so-called cluster sites, a controversial method for housing the city’s most vulnerable that de Blasio has vowed to cut back on.
