City Hall Turns Its Attention to Rental Units
Research shows that landlords with “multiple” properties are the ones in trouble.
With more than 1,500 landlords in Lakewood, city hall is turning its attention to maintaining the rentals properties in the city. Part of the equation in dealing with the city’s aging housing stock is staying on top of the city’s landlords, said Dru Siley, the city’s director of planning and development. There are 32,000 housing units in Lakewood. More than half of them are rentals — 17,280 to be exact. Through analysis of the city’s recent housing survey, city officials learned that many Lakewood landlords own more than property. Those are the ones in trouble. “For the most part, of those 1,500 landlords, most of those folks own one, maybe two properties,” Siley said. “There are some who own groups of properties and all of those …
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Denise
12:36 pm on Saturday, March 24, 2012
I did not mean to attack you. I believe the problem is when you put all of section 8 into one lump sum. Yes, some of them are very bad and some are not. It is not section 8 itself that is the problem, it is the certain people on it but not all of them. You can have a full paying tenant that could lower your property values as well. One thing I would love to see is that radios are banned in … more ›