The Reason for the Implied Warranty of Habitability?

Yesterday's NY Times has an interesting story on an apartment building in the Bronx that has fallen into deep disrepair.  Two issues that were particularly interesting to me were the difficulty that the city has had in dealing with the landlord, which is organized as an LLC, and the New York City program that was created to deal with this type of property.

Ben Barros

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