If he’s that bad, they should seize the properties and bank accounts and use the funds to actually make the fixes. Then either operate them under public housing or sell them off.
Silly human, asking for real justice is so 44BC
Y’all are a bunch of bloodthirsty headline-readers.
Sources don’t believe Ohebshalom was targeted because the assailant threatened a number of other people in custody as well.
This isn’t a story about a slumlord being targeted for his past harms, it’s just a story about how shitty prison safety standards are.
Not exactly the kind of thing I’d personally be celebrating. “Breaking people’s face bones” shouldn’t be a part of the US justice system, and the fact it was a part of that process - irrespective of the victim crimes - is a disgrace. Probably even worse is the number of stories of things like this that don’t get published because the victim isn’t click-generating.
Preach it brother!
Even if he was targeted for being a massive piece of shit, this is not a good story worth celebrating.
He used the wrong formula but got the right solution.
Sir, this is a
Wendy’s.lemmy
Somebody needs to talk to the Union busting CEOs out there. Remind them that organized labor and negotiation was the alternative to this kind of behavior. Or would they rather return to the days of having the workers show up at their home, knock down the door, and present their grievances in a more forceful fashion?
Or would they rather return to the days of having the workers show up at their home, knock down the door, and present their grievances in a more forceful fashion?
I’d like that.
Ah remember when factory owners would hire goons to beat up workers for asking for things like days off?
Their hired goons are now in the higher levels of government.
They still do, the Pinkertons are still around. Ask Wizards of the Coast
You mean he’s dissatisfied with his housing arrangement?
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You raise an excellent point about capability as a person to whom others are reliant upon. Landlords would do well to have a definition of housing to measure their properties against. If a landlord doesn’t have the property up to standard within X days of issue of complaint, the property is forfeit and becomes public and the state can make the changes.
Landlords who do their job and make living in their properties not a nightmare are eligible for a tip.
Are there not tenancy bureaus where you live that enforce (or y’know, give lip service) to housing standards?
Not really, in most places in the US. Housing departments are underfunded in many states and municipalities, mostly so crooked property companies can get away with renting unsafe and unsanitary properties or extorting tenants. Sure, they’ll usually take action against the biggest offenders after enough people complain, but exercising tenant rights (if indeed you have any, tenant rights vary state to state, county to county and sometimes city to city) is very hard and costly in many places.
I’m going to assume this was a call fo violence and the chicken shit mods deleted it.
All rights are won through violence, and we’ve lost for the last 100 years.
Not all rights are won through violence. In Australia, the union movement has managed to secure the following through peaceful means, specifically through lobbying, striking and peaceful protest:
- 40 hour work week; overtime for hours worked beyond this
- sick leave and annual leave
- maternity and paternity leave
- Medicare, our semi-universal public healthcare
- enforceable safety standards at work
- compensation for injury at work
- our ‘award’-based system of minimum pay and conditions per field
- federally mandated superannuation (forced retirement saving paid by your employer, tax free)
- protections against unfair dismissal
While not all rights are gained through violence all rights are limited and revoked by violence, in particular state-sponsored violence.
Yet another excuse to use this gif.
In the two buildings along West 170th Street, the city alleges that Daniel Ohebshalom and his company, Belmont Ventures LLC, have racked up 700 serious violations affecting health and safety of those who live there.
700 serious health and safety violations in just 2 building, holy shit… that’s not negligent, that’s homicidal…
At what point does the state confiscate them and auction them off? Give right of refusal to a residents’ coop and shake off the parasite.
Right? At 700 violations, I’d expect seizures to start happening WAY sooner. I get that’s a lot of paperwork, but at what point do you say “alright clearly you cannot do things properly, so we will take your things and do it for you, nobody has to pay rent until these things are fixed to code. Also the landlord owes us for the fixes.”
NYC is super cozy with corporate landlords because they essentially fund everyone’s political careers. They bully around their tenants knowing 99% of people are too poor to afford representation, but the moment you get a lawyer they fuck off because they know they’re in the wrong.
Something like 80%ish of residential buildings are owned by corporate landlords
/c/upliftingnews
Q: What do you call 1000 slumlords at the bottom of the ocean?
A: A good start.
What greed does to a person
and it can affect us all sadly.
i’m totally immune… give me all the money in the world, and i’ll prove it…
It’s the first time that landlord has given a shit about something being broken
I hope his hand is okay
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Meh. People love to decry prison violence until their chosen guy gets it.
Stay consistent.
Downvotes from children. Nobody brave enough to argue for prison violence?
Edit edit I am astonished with how quickly Lemmy supports prison violence. Very telling of who actually hangs here.
The guy is certainly a piece of shit but I’ll still come out against prison violence.
Except one case where two local formed political figures in county jail got into a slap fight about local government. That’s pure comedy. Nobody was seriously hurt.
Totally agree with your first sentence
I oppose all violence, but I’m also aware enough of historical loops to know that capital owners in the past have only yielded to violence. Given the repeating patterns of history, it seems that the capital owners are choosing violence and not the other way around.
They could yield, stop lobbying and killing the middle class, but more likely they’ll fight to the death. So I expect the public will eventually give them what they seem to be asking for.
You can only pressurize a population so much before it explodes.
I’m all for changing the class dynamic, and that will come with massive upheaval for the capital class.
I don’t believe in extra judicial violence, and I don’t believe in normalizing prison violence, even for the worst of the worst.
If society has already deemed prison is the right place for someone, that’s that. Theres no halfsie wink wink bullshit about “don’t drop the soap” or whatever. Even for child molesters, murders, whoever.
Hell I’d even prefer execution or corporal punishment over “hehe try not to get shanked”. Obviously i am only referring to the limited choice window of “prison violence or mandated violence” as the only possible options. In reality I think incarceration+ reform is the only just punishment.
