NY Dirt: Rutland Plaza tenants take landlord, HPD to court

A landlord with more than 2000 open Housing Preservation & Development violations is in hot water.

At a rally outside Brooklyn housing court Monday, tenants in the Brownsville residential complex Rutland Plaza decried conditions like black mold, broken elevators and raw sewage that they claim landlord Robyn Lucas-Cora neglected to address despite receiving $96 million in state preservation funding in 2016.

The lawsuit filed by the tenants last month also names HPD and New York State Homes & Community Renewal among the respondents, and seeks to compel corrective action at the 438-unit former Mitchell-Lama complex…

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